Belleville Breviary
The Belleville Breviary (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 10484, 2 volumes) is an illuminated breviary. It was produced in Paris some time between 1323 and 1326 by the artist known as Jean Pucelle, probably for Jeanne de Belleville, the wife of Olivier IV de Clisson.
Belleville Breviary
Jean Pucelle · Self-scanned · Public domain
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- Jean Pucelle · Mahiet
- Date
- 1320
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- Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The breviary is divided into two volumes of 446 and 430 folios. Volume 1 contains the prayers used during the summer, while volume 2 contains those used during the winter. The manuscript was owned by Jeanne de Belleville. It was later owned by Charles V of France and his son Charles VI. Charles VI gave the manuscript to his son-in-law Richard II of England. Henry IV of England gave it to Jean, Duc de Berry. Jean gave it to his niece Marie, who was a nun in Poissy. It was purchased in 1454 by another nun at Poissy, Marie Jouvenal des Ursins.
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1320
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1320
Belleville Breviary is recorded from 1320.
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- 1.Ingo F. Walther & Norbert Wolf, 2005, Masterpieces of Illustration, Köln, Taschen
- 2.Marcel Thomas, 1971, Les grandes Heures de Jean, duc de Berry, Thames and Hudson, London.
- 3.Delisle, Léopold, Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, roi de France, 1337-1380. Paris, 1907.
- 4.K. Morand, Jean Pucelle, Oxford 1962, p. 11
- 5.Delisle, Léopold. Notice de douze livres royaux de XIIIe et du XIVe siècle. Paris, 1902, 65-66.
- 6.Cockerell, S.C., Hours of Yolande of Flanders a Maunscript of the Fourteenth Century in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson. London, 1905.
- 7.Sandler, Lucy Freeman.“Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary”, The Art Bulletin 66 (1984): 73-96.
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Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary, The Art Bulletin, 1984.
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Tiempo de los Hombres: El Breviario de Belleville (2012) — DataCite (OpenAlex)
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