Cleveland Museum of Art

The Gotha Missal: Fol. 55r, Text

Master of the Boqueteaux

Date

c. 1375

Medium

ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding

Culture

France, Paris

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The style and quality of this manuscript's decoration is typical of deluxe Parisian books made for aristocratic or royal patrons. Most of the book's decoration appears to be the work of the Master of the Boqueteaux, an artist active at the court of King Charles V (died 1380). His style was apparently shared by a number of book illuminators working in and around Paris. It is very possible that the Gotha Missal belonged to Charles V, but is not provable because the manuscript has no royal portraits and lacks a colophon. Given the book's magnificent decoration, however, it would seem that it was produced for a Valois prince, if not for the king himself. The manuscript receives its name from the German dukes of Gotha, its later owners.

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