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This volume concludes the comprehensive description of all French manuscripts in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich that are decorated with book decoration, whereby the closely related Dutch and Flemish manuscripts were also included for stylistic reasons. Compared to vol. 7/1, the time frame here remains limited to about 140 years, which, however, can vary greatly in that both the demand for illuminated manuscripts and the mobile locations of certain illuminators as well as political change within the French regions were subject to rapid change.
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Altogether this last catalogue volume 7/2 presents - by the way in a chronological much smaller frame than in volume 7/1 - a certain relation or mutual dependency concerning the respective bookillumination. The French king's court remained locally movable during these 120 years, the political accents were directed to different places and with them also the demand in illuminated manuscripts and the stilistic character of miniatures changed. The greatest part of the described manuscripts are the 68 books of hours, several among them commissioned by a famous personality (for example the book of hours of Franois de Kerboutier or the socalled book of hours of Jacques Coeur). In addition we observe in those turbulent times not only the activity of numerous sciences, but also the specific return to the antiquity (for example Vergil). Or there there were produced copies of illuminated texts written by contemporary poets (Christine de Pisan, Francesco Petrarca or Giovanni Boccaccio). Another striking feature of book illumination produced during the 15th century in France and Flanders is the more frequent collaboration of several excellent miniaturists in a single manuscript. For example we see Jean Fouquet and the socalled Master of the Munich Boccaccio illuminating the famous "Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes" by Giovanni Boccaccio in the Bavarian State Library. Other innovations in illuminated manuscripts have their roots in the flemish bookillumination and in flemish artists like Simon Bening, also represented in the Munich library. And finally there are described in this catalogue numerous manuscipts decorated in the Netherlands with a spartan and typical form of fleuronnée, used in monasteries of the socalled Devotio moderna.
