Book of Hours

Associates of the Painter of Additional 15677

Artists

The Painter of Additional 15677 collaborated with several associates. Two of them painted an historiated initial each. They also provided the landscape or architectural borders around some of the main artist’s miniatures and historiated initials. The more talented associate painted the initial and border on fol. 74r as well as four other landscape borders (fols. 50r, 82r, 85r, 107r). The other associate executed the historiated initial and border on fol. 25r, and further architectural borders. One of them or a third associate painted the border with peacock feathers on fol. 14r. Numerous assistants provided the strewn-flower borders, ornamental initials and line fillers throughout the volume. 

The Painter of Additional 15677 provided the scene of the Adoration of the Magi within the historiated initial D. A talented associate painted the historiated border. It shows wild men emerging from a cave and running down a hill; one of them confronts a knight-merman in the lower border.