The Très Riches Heures Calendar pages

I have decided to post again this year, as I did three years ago and last year, the appropriate monthly calendar page from the Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry. There is an article about this famous Book of Hours here, which has links to articles on the artists involved. 

The manuscript was begun by the Limbourg brothers Herman (b. 1385), Paul (b.1386 or 7) and Jean (b. 1388) in 1412, but left unfinished when they all died, probably of plague, in February 1416. The Duke died that same year and the Hours were completed by other artists, later in the century, in a recognisably different style. The majority of the calendar pages are by the Limbourgs themselves, and include marvellous views of the ducal and of other royal residences in France. 

What they do not indicate in their idyllic representations - and, given the nature of the book, why should they I might add - is that they were produced against the background of civil conflict between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians, as detailed so graphically in the Journal of the Bourgeois of Paris, and, in 1415, King Henry V's invasion and the French defeat at Agincourt.

That six hundredth anniversary is what prompts me to reissue these posts, particularly as I am involved in planning a projected conference in Oxford this summer on Agincourt - I will post initial details of that and other conferences in the series in a few days time.

I will post each Calendar page separately on the first day of the month with revised notes about the scene and places depicted, and where possible their place in the events of 1415.