To stand before the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is to witness the height of medieval artistic ambition—an object that is not only breathtaking in its execution but monumental in its cultural significance. Currently on view at the Château de Chantilly, this manuscript—arguably the most famous illuminated book in the world—is displayed in full for the first time in a generation. The exhibition brings together not only the complete calendar cycle by the Limbourg brothers but also reunites the treasures of the Duc’s extraordinary library, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to encounter the intellectual, artistic, and devotional legacy of one of the great patrons of the Middle Ages.

Explore the reconstruction of an early 14th-century Bolognese illuminated Antiphonal by Nerio. Dispersed leaves in major collections reveal a rare glimpse into medieval manuscript artistry—and the visual, stylistic, and iconographic links that connect them.

This post explores a remarkable illuminated leaf of Jacob’s Dream from a 15th-century Swabian Missal and the rediscovery of its sister leaves now in Cambridge, Tokyo, and Philadelphia. Through heraldic clues and auction records, we begin to reconstruct a once-complete manuscript linked to the von Magenbuch family and the artistic legacy of late medieval Augsburg.