Jean Miélot in his scriptorium

This record began as the only image in the collection with no attribution at all, recorded as rights.status: unknown. It is now the most completely documented one. The chain took a reverse image search, a saved copy of a page that blocks automated readers, and a Library of Congress catalogue record.

The picture is a grisaille miniature by Jean Le Tavernier, made for the compilation of the Miracles de Nostre Dame that Jean Miélot completed for Philip the Good around 1456. It shows Miélot at a lectern, with a knife for scraping corrections and horns of ink hung beside the desk.

One correction to the earlier version of this record: the image is not a black-and-white reproduction of a colour original. Grisaille is painted in grey, so the monochrome is the work rather than the copy.