Addenda to the Corpus of the Master of the Avignon Decretum (Avignon, BM, Ms. 659), Active in Toulouse around the Mid-Fourteenth Century: the Liber Sextus Washington DC, Library of Congress, Ms. 28

Abstract

The manuscript presented in this contribution, a Liber Sextus preserved in the Library of Congress in Washington DC (Ms. 28), has so far been overlooked by art historians.The stylistic analysis of the illustrative and decorative apparatus of the manuscript, conducted in this study, makes it possible to attribute it to the anonymous illuminator called Master of the Avignon Decretum (from the most relevant manuscript illuminated by him, Avignon, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 659), as revealed by the physiognomies of the faces of the characters depicted in the manuscript.This illuminator, trained most probably in Toulouse and active between 1320 and 1350, likely had links with the Dominicans of the city.

Keywords

• illuminated manuscripts
• miniatures
• toulouse
• dominicans
• liber sextus
• canon law
• legal manuscripts