ID: 700009605 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009605	Record Type: Movable Work

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (illuminated manuscript; frères de Limbourg, commandé par le duc Jean Ier de Berry; ca. 1411/1413–1416; Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly (Chantilly, Hauts...; MS 65; )

Note: 206 leaves, with 66 large miniatures and 65 small miniatures. Manuscript was left unfinished, possibly due to the deaths of the patron and the Limbourg Brothers in 1416, victims of the plague. It was further embellished in the 1440s.

Titles:

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

MS 65 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

book of hours [300026457]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1411/1413–1416

Creator Display:

frères de Limbourg, commandé par le duc Jean Ier de Berry [preferred,VP]

patron Berry, Jean de France, duc de (French noble, 1340-1416) [500242925]

illuminators Limbourg Brothers (North Netherlandish miniaturists, 15th century) [500486541]

Locations:

Current: Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly (Chantilly, Hauts-de-France, France) [500300091] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: MS 65

Display Materials: illumination on parchment

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	paint (coating) [300015029]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

Dimensions: 206 leaves; 30 cm (12 in) x 21.5 cm (8 1⁄2 in)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	hours (prayers) [300404017]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name), prayers (compositions)) (AAT)

	calendars (documents) [300026741]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry	........ [VP]
	........ Janson, History of Art (1971) 281 ff.
	........ Musée Condé [online] (2000-)
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-) in "Landscape painting Limbourg, de family"
MS 65	........ [VP]
	........ Grove Art Online (2008-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Musée Condé [online] (2000-) http://www.domainedechantilly.com/fr/accueil/chateau/cabinet-des-livres/

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Grove Art Online (2008-)