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98 michaEla schullEr-JuckEs atum of Justinian in Bruges14. Closely related to this group is furthermore a Codex Justiniani from the monastery library in Schlägl in Upper Austria, which – despite its rich decoration – has attracted very little art-historical attention (pl. 2a-f).15 The connections are apparent in the framing elements, foliage, and figures, which are once again striking for their bulging eyes, red cheeks and eyelids, seated figures with elongated upper bodies, and white highlighting of individual features. The Brussels Apparatus is the only known codex where the two painters from Southern France appear together with the northern painter. Signs of artistic in- teraction are very limited, yet not completely absent. Occasionally the southern painters adopted gothicizing architectural elements that contrast with their stan- dard repertoire, which was largely confined to simple round-arch arcades: notable examples occur on fol. 2r (pl. 1c) and 220r, where the rowed gables with integral trefoil arcade show ogival forms similar to that deployed by the northern painter on fol. 170r (pl. 1a), albeit rendered in an idiosyncratic manner and with a local touch. This pattern and the novelty at that time of the crocketed ogees – which only spread beyond England in the early fourteenth century16 – make it highly probable that the southern painters took the motif from the work of their northern colleague. It also raises the possibility of a delay between the activity of scribe and illuminators; a further delay between the interventions of the northern and southern illuminators seems equally plausible. 14 As already suggested by Stones, Gothic Manuscripts II/1 (cit. n. 2), p. 235, cat. no. VII‒35. ‒ Bruges, Bibliothèque Publique, Ms. 352, see Laurent Busine / Ludo Vandamme: Le vaste monde à livres ouverts. Manuscrits médiévaux en dialogue avec l’art contemporain. Bruges 2002, p. 153, cat. no. 34, with an illustration. 15 Schlägl, Premonstratensian Monastery, Library, Cod. 4. – Kurt Holter, by contrast, loca- lized the manuscript to Bologna, see Kurt Holter: Buchkunst in den alten Klöstern des Machlandes und Mühlviertels. In: Das Mühlviertel. Oberösterreichische Landes- ausstellung, Vol. 2: Beiträge. Linz 1988, pp. 404–405 (with ill.); reprinted: id.: Buch- kunst–Handschriften–Bibliotheken. Beiträge zur mitteleuropäischen Buchkultur vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Renaissance, ed. by Georg Heilingsetzer / Winfried Stelzer, Vol. 2, Linz 1996 (Schriftenreihe des Oberösterreichischen Musealvereines, Gesellschaft für Landeskunde 15/16), pp. 1092‒1093 (with ill.). 16 I am grateful to Paul Binski for this observation. pl. 2a: Illustration for Liber I. Justinian, Codex. Southern French illuminator, around 1290/1300. Schlägl, Premonstratensian Mo- nastery, Library, Cod. 4, fol. 5v pl. 2b: Illustration for Liber IX, see pl. 2a, fol. 267r