# Les Petites Heurs du Duc Jean de Berry [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JEAN LE NOIR]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 18014\), 212 x 145 mm ## Commentary Les Petites Heurs du Duc Jean de Berry 1372-90 Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 18014\), 212 x 145 mm Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris The very small manuscript, Les Petites Heurs du Duc Jean de Berry by its modern title, is one of the surviving six books from the great collection of Duc de Berry \(1340-1416\), one of the four sons of King John II of France. The oldest part of this book, the Passion of Christ, was illuminated in Paris between 1372 and 1375 by Jean Le Noir, one of Pucelle's pupils. He worked together with an anonymous artist referred to as Pseudo-Jacquemart, and another anonymous artist. Some years later the manuscript was completed by the Duke's outstanding new court painter, Jacquemart de Hesdin. One miniature by Jean de Limbourg was added later, probably in 1410-12, after the book had been completed. The book contains a Book of Hours based on the Parisian Liturgy, prayers and devotions for private use, and a calendar. The two pages \(folios 140v and 141r\) are magnificently illustrated with the Betrayal of Christ \(left\) and the Descent from the Cross and the Resurrection \(right\), which are integrated into the no less beautiful calligraphy of the manuscript. The pictures were probably composed by Jean Le Noir, while the execution was later entrusted to an anonymous illuminator. ## Related artworks - [Hours of Jeanne de Navarre]() - [Hours of Jeanne de Navarre]() - [Les Petites Heurs du Duc Jean de Berry]() - [Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg]() - [Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()