David Aubert

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David Aubert (before 1413 — working 1453-79)[1] was a French calligrapher, who transcribed and adapted courtly romances and chronicles for the court of the Duke of Burgundy. In addition to finely presented works, illuminated at Bruges and other centres, for the Dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold and the Duchess Margaret of York, he completed manuscripts for Antoine de Bourgogne and Philippe de Croy.[2] He was the son of the calligrapher Jean Aubert, members of a family with a tradition of public service in the Burgundian court, though his first mention as a scribe in the ducal service dates to 1463. In 1469, following the death of Philip the Good, he was an inventory-taker of the late Duke's library.

David Aubert was responsible for an Histoire de Charles Martel that is now in the Bibliothèque royale, Brussels, and a Perceforest and a Renaud de Montauban (both in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris). He made two compilations, a Chronique et conquestes de Charlemaine begun for Jean de Créquy but completed for Philip the Good, and a Chronique des empereurs. Forty-three extant manuscripts are associated with David Aubert.[3]

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  1. ^ William Westcott Kibler and Grover A. Zinn, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, (1995) s.v. "David Aubert" (Charity Cannon Willard).
  2. ^ "Burgundian Frontispieces".
  3. ^ Richard E. F. Straub, David Aubert, Escripvain et Clerc surveys his career.