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95 EncountErs in Books agesimo die sabbati post vincula sancti Petri.6 The manuscript contains five miniatures and accompanying coloured initials, which were produced by three different illumi- nators (pl. 1a, 1c-d). Those at the beginning of Liber III on fol. 170r (pl. 1a) come from a northern French painter, who showed a preference for tile-like backgrounds in red and blue, set in architectural framings. He covered his figures in plastically mod- elled garments with varied folds, including bowl and pipe forms, while the borders have undulating lines and c-forms that are emphasized with black or white contours. Hair is generally curled and shows black outlining with a brownish-grey wash; com- plexions are pale with black details and delicate pink highlights for lips and cheeks. Gerhard Schmidt identified a further work of this illuminator in a Digestum vetus manuscript from the University Library of Graz (Cod. 32, pl. 1b), which I will return to shortly.7 He also argued for a direct workshop connection to the richly decorated Soissons prayer book in New York, which was produced in Amiens in the 1280s‒90s.8 Alison Stones has since suggested that the illuminator came from Paris and has con- vincingly expanded his oeuvre with reference to a legal manuscript now in Troyes.9 6 Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. 21190, fol. 275rb; see Camille Gaspar / Frédéric Lyna: Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. I, Paris 1937, pp. 200‒201, cat. no. 86, pl. XLII (fol. 170r) and Stones, Gothic Manuscripts II/1 (cit. n. 2), pp. 234 f., cat. no. VII‒35, figs. 467‒470, 472. 7 Schmidt, Mobilität von Buchmalern 2003 (cit. n. 2), pp. 6‒13, fig. 16; id., Mobilität von Buchmalern 2005 (cit. n. 2), pp. 70‒77, fig. 16. 8 New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M. 729, Psalter Hours of Yolande de Soissons; on this manuscript, see, among others, Karen Gould: The Psalter and Hours of Yolande de Soissons, Cambridge (MA) 1978; François Avril: Psautier-livre d’heures de Yo- lande de Soissons. In: L’Art au temps des rois maudits. Philippe le Bel et ses fils 1285‒1328. Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 17.3.‒29.6.1998, Paris 1998, pp. 298‒300, cat. no. 202, with fig.; Stones, Gothic Manuscripts I/2 (cit. n. 2), esp. pp. 230‒239, cat. no. III‒33. ‒ Among the close analogies, Schmidt noted the figures, architectures, and also the frame corners with armorial shields that are found in both the miniature from Cod. 32 and the manuscript of Yolande de Soissons; see Schmidt, Mobi- lität von Buchmalern 2003 (cit. n. 2), pp. 10‒12, fig. 17; id., Mobilität von Buchmalern 2005 (cit. n. 2), pp. 73‒75, pl. 4, fig. 17. 9 Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 89, Innocent IV, Apparatus, fol. 266r. According to the colophon, it was written by Henricus de Taulayo: Explicit summa Innocencii quarti dies lune in conversione sancti Pauli ad fidem, de manu Henrici britonis de Taulayo (Taulé); see Stones, Gothic Manuscripts I/1 (cit. n. 2), pp. 78, 140 and II/1 (cit. n. 2), pp. 234 f., cat. no. VII‒35, figs. 469, 471. The attribution of the decoration of Ms. 89 to the Méliacin-Master, as suggested by Richard and Mary Rouse, is made doubtful by stylistic differences; see Richard H. Rouse / Mary A. Rouse: Illiterati et uxorati. Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200‒1500. Vol. 2, Turnhout 2000, p. 51 and Stones, Gothic Manuscripts II/1 (cit. n. 2), pp. 234 f., cat. no. VII‒35. ‒ Stones also argued for stylistic connections between the group of northern French miniatures in Graz, Brussels, and Troyes, and the book painting of the second painter of the manuscript lat. 8936 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (Justinian, Corpus Iuris Civilis), although the figures of the Parisian manuscript are sig- nificantly stiffer and less strongly modelled (Stones, Gothic Manuscripts I/1 [cit. n. 2], p. 78 and II/1, 234 f., cat. no VII‒35; for lat. 8936, see François Avril, Jean-Pierre Aniel, Mireille Mentré, Alix Saulnier, Yolanta Załuska: Manuscrits enluminés de la péninsule Ibérique [Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Paris 1982, p. 86, cat. no. 102, pl. L). Stones furthermore connected the Digestum vetus of Justinian in Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge (Ms. 8/8, Justinian, Digestum vetus) with the northern French group, an