- Limburg by Jose Bell
Limburg., Fr. Limbourg, province (1991 pop. 750,435), 930 sq mi (2,409 sq km), NE Belgium, bordering on the Netherlands in the north. The chief cities are Hasselt (the capital), Tongeren, and Sint-Truiden. The province is bordered in the east ...
- Estrades, Godefroy, comte d' by Hanna Johnson
... he negotiated (1662) the purchase of Dunkirk from the English. He served with King Louis XIV in the third of the Dutch Wars and was made marshal in recognition of his successes at Limbourg and Liège. He later negotiated the Treaty of Nijmegen (1678).
- Limbourg brothers by Catherine Morgan
Fl. 1380–1416, family of Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminators. The Limbourg brothers, Pol, Jan, and Herman, were trained as goldsmiths. They succeeded Jacquemart de Hesdin in 1411 as court painters to Jean, duc de Berry. Their masterpiece is the magnificent book of hours known as the Très ...
- Limbourg brothers by Avery Ortega
Or Limburg brothers(flourished C. 1400–1416) Flemish illuminators. Sons of a sculptor, the three brothers—Pol, Herman, and Jehanequin de Limbourg—learned the goldsmith's art in Paris and entered the service of the duke de Berry, for whom they produced one of the most famous of all illuminated manuscripts, a book of hours (private prayer book) known as the Très ...
- book of hours by Trevor Newman
... of the 15th cent. Jean, duc de Berry, was among the most renowned collectors of books of hours, and his Très Riches Heures. (Musée Condé, Chantilly), illustrated in part by the Limbourg brothers (c.1415), is among the greatest achievements in this genre.