Jean Miélot
15th-century French writer, translator, and manuscript illuminator · France · On the map · Writers · Died 1472
Jean Miélot, also Jehan, was an author, translator, manuscript illuminator, scribe and priest, who served as secretary to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, from 1449 to Philip's death in 1467, and then to his son Charles the Bold.
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An author portrait of Jean Miélot writing his compilation of the Miracles of Our Lady, one of his many popular works. The setting is probably the ducal library. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
Presentation miniature by Jean le Tavernier, 1454-7, Brussels. Jean Miélot giving Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, his translation of the Traité sur l'oraison dominicale. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels.![Another image of Miélot writing. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels.[11]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Jean_Mi%C3%A9lot%2C_Brussels.jpg/1280px-Jean_Mi%C3%A9lot%2C_Brussels.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Another image of Miélot writing. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels.[11]
Folio 41r "Wheel of Fortune" from Epitre d'Othéa; Les Sept Sacrements de l'Eglise, c. 1455 at Waddesdon ManorAbout this person
He also served as chaplain to Louis of Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol from 1468, after Philip's death. He was mainly employed in the production of de luxe illuminated manuscripts for Philip's library. He translated many works, both religious and secular, from Latin or Italian into French, as well as writing or compiling books himself, and composing verse. Between his own writings and his translations he produced some twenty-two works whilst working for Philip, which were widely disseminated, many being given printed editions in the years after his death, and influenced the development of French prose style.
