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96 michaEla schullEr-JuckEs A further group of miniatures from the Brussels Apparatus shows a completely different character and is probably the work of two illuminators with a common origin in Southern France (pl. 1c-d).10 Characteristic are the rigid figures with large staring eyes, rosy cheeks and eyelids, white highlighting around facial features and hands, as well as seated figures with strikingly elongated upper bodies. Like the northern French illuminator, these painters clearly specialized in legal manuscripts. One of them, namely the painter of the miniature for Liber II on fol. 96r (pl. 1d), was also involved in at least five further manuscripts, some of which show relations to the early work of the Jonathan Alexander Master: an Apparatus super quinque li- bros decretalium of Innocent IV in the Peterhouse Library of Cambridge;11 a Digest- um novum of Justinian, now in Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge (pl. 1e);12 a Speculum Iudiciale of Guilelmus Durantis and a Liber sextus decretalium of Boni- fatius VIII in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich;13 and, finally, an Inforti- attribution that – in the light of differences in ornament, figural forms, and approach to clothing – still needs some further investigation (see Stones, Gothic Manuscripts I/1 [cit. n. 2], 78; for Ms. 8/8 see also Susan L’Engle: MS 8/8, in: L’Engle / Gibbs, Illumi- nating the Law [cit. n. 2], pp. 212‒215, cat. no. 17, where this manuscript is localized, with reservations, to Southern France). The question, finally, of whether the work of the northern French painter of the Graz, Brussels, and Troyes manuscripts culminated in the illumination of lat. 3898 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as Stones sugge- sted, must also remain open – particularly as the ornament, faces, very long bodies, and handling of clothes show marked differences (see Stones, Gothic Manuscripts II/1 [cit. n. 2], p. 235, cat. no. VII‒35 and II/2, p. 154, figs. 304, 317, 318; on this manuscript, see also Schmidt, Mobilität von Buchmalern 2003 [cit. n. 2], pp. 5‒6, figs. 6‒8; id., Mobilität von Buchmalern 2005 [cit. n. 2], pp. 68‒70, figs. 6‒8). 10 Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. 21190, fols. 2r (Liber I, pl. 1c), 96r (Liber II, pl. 1d), 220r (Liber IV) and 231v (Liber V). ‒ The stylistic localization of these miniatures to Southern France comes from Gerhard Schmidt, Mobilität von Buchmalern 2003 (cit. n. 2), p. 9, fig. 18, and id., Mobilität von Buchmalern 2005 (cit. n. 2), p. 70‒73, fig. 18); the miniatures are also mentioned by Alison Stones: Stones, Gothic Manuscripts II/1 (cit. n. 2), pp. 234‒235, cat. no. VII‒35, figs. 467, 468, 470, 472. 11 Cambridge, Peterhouse, Ms. 80; for this manuscript, see Nigel Morgan / Stella Panayo- tova / Suzanne Reynolds: A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part II/1: Italy & the Iberian Peninsula. London / Turnhout 2011 (Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula in Cambridge), pp. 290‒291, cat. no. 172, with figs. of fols. 87r and 153v. 12 As already suggested by Stones, Gothic Manuscripts II/1 (cit. n. 2), p. 235, cat. no. VII‒35. ‒ Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, Ms. 10/10; on this manuscript, see Robert Gibbs: The Jonathan Alexander Master, and his entry in: L’Engle / Gibbs, Illu- minating the Law (cit. n. 2), pp. 159, 207‒211, cat. no. 16, pl. 16a‒g; Gibbs localized the manuscript to Southern France and identified connections with an earlier stage of the Jonathan Alexander Master’s work. 13 As already suggested by Stones, Gothic Manuscripts II/1 (cit. n. 2), p. 235, cat. no. VII‒35. ‒ Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 9502 and Clm 28472; see Ulri- ke Bauer-Eberhardt: Fragliche Miniaturen in München. Der sog. Jonathan Alexander Master. In: Rivista di storia della miniatura 17 (2013), pp. 70‒74, pl. VI, figs. 1‒5 and ead.: Die illuminierten Handschriften französischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staats- bibliothek (Vom 10. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert). 2 vols., Wiesbaden 2019 (Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München, Vol. 7), pp. 228‒230, cat. no. 204, pl. 319, who localized the manuscripts to Southern France and identified connections with the early work of the Jonathan Alexander Master.