This monograph focuses on the prolific mid-fifteenth-century Flemish book illuminator who takes his name from the lavish and celebrated copy of the statues and privileges of Ghent and Flanders made around 1453 for Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy (Vienna, ONB, Cod. 2583). The study seeks both to order, analyze, and evaluate the work of the Ghent Privileges Master and to position his achievement in the larger context of the history and arts of the Burgundian Netherlands. Its analytical core is a generously illustrated essay in six chapters. The first traces the stylistic development of the Privileges Master and the second that of his successor, the Master of the Ghent Gradual. Compositional and iconographic sources, innovations, and problems are considered in the third chapter, the two painters' collaborators in the fourth, and the dating and localization of their oeuvre in the fifth. The final chapter positions that oeuvre in the larger context of Flemish visual culture in the time of Philip the Good. Following the essay is an excursus on the ancillary decorat