Recueil d'Arras

Tentatively attributed to the Netherlandish artist Jacques Le Boucq [fr],[1] the recueil (miscellany) comprises 293 paper folios, of which 289 (numbers 5–177, 179–293, and 271)[2] contain copies of portraits of named historical people.

The book is named after the city of its current location, Arras in Northern France.

It is not known who commissioned the book, or for what purpose; but it is of significant historical interest, as it reproduces many near contemporary depictions of known political, courtly, or artistic persons.

The portraits are followed by series of warriors, ecclesiastics, writers and finally notable heretics.

[4] The only non-historical portraits are of (the unidentified) Laure de Noves and Petrarch on folio 27I verso.