Guillebert, de Mets, approximately 1390-approximately 1438

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Calligraphy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Booksellers and bookselling
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found: Guillebert de Mets. Description de la ville de Paris 1434, 2015:title page (Guillebert de Mets) pages 11-17 (born about 1390 in Geraardsbergen (Grammont); died between 1436 and 1439; copyist, translator, compiler, author, and book agent; located in Paris, though not continously, from shortly before 1407 until 1419, and possibly again in 1422; copyist employed by Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy from at least 1410; active as an alderman and copyist in Grammont from 1420 until 1436; around 1430 acquired the Ecu de France or Den Scilt van Vrankerike, an inn in Grammont; worked as a translator and book agent for Philip the Good of Burgundy in the 1430s; last recorded as an alderman in 1436)

found: Vanwijnsberghe, Dominique. "A l'Escu de France", 2017:title page (Guillebert de Mets) pages 25, 31-33, 844-845 (born about 1390 or 1391 in Grammont; probably died in 1438 in Grammont; scribe and bookseller active in Grammont and Paris; keeper of an inn in Grammont called the Escu de France, from which he organized his activities as a bookseller, subcontracting the decoration and illustration of his manuscripts to a group of illuminators known as "the Masters of Guillebert de Mets")

found: Union list of artist names, viewed on January 18, 2018(Guillebert de Mets (Flemish scribe, ca. 1350-1434); variant: Guillebert de Metz)

found: Wikipédia, viewed on January 18, 2018(Guillebert de Mets; born about 1390-1391; died after 1436; Flemish copyist)

found: Thieme-Becker(Guillebert de Mets (Metz); born between 1350 and 1360; scribe and bookseller in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy)

found: Bradley, John W. A dictionary of miniaturists, illuminators, calligraphers, and copyists, 1888(Metz, Guillebert de; copyist, saec. XV.)