David Aubert

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.

He then produced at least eight manuscripts for Margaret of York, though Antoine de Bourgogne became his main client.

Like his contemporaries Jean Miélot and Colard Mansion, he seems to have run an atelier or workshop coordinating the various functions of producing deluxe manuscripts for the bibliophiles of the court circle.

Despite being "one of the most studied Flemish scribes of (the period)", his personal role in producing many of the manuscripts signed by him remains uncertain; for example it is unclear whether, like Miélot and Mansion, he did the translations himself.

His manuscript of The Visions of Tondal is in the Getty Museum, heavily illustrated for Margaret of York by Simon Marmion.

Charles the Bold surprising David Aubert, a miniature from the Histoire de Charles Martel ; an unusual variant of the presentation portrait, probably alluding to Alexander the Great , who surprised one of his artists in similar fashion. The rear wall seems to refer to Jan van Eyck 's Arnolfini Portrait , which contains many of the same objects.
A page from The Visions of Tondal