The Hours of Isabella Stuart
Physical Description
Description and Contents
Parchment, i early modern paper flyleaf + i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 232 fols. + i contemporary parchment flyleaf, 250 x 183 mm (120 x 76 mm), 15 long lines, ruled in red ink, catchwords. The text was written in iron-gall ink and the rubrics in ultramarine blue.
Patron praying to Christ (prayer Creator celi)
The woman in black shown in prayer before the image of the Resurrected Christ on an altar is most probably the manuscript’s commissioner, Yolande of Aragon, who was widowed in 1417. The facial types and the tiled floor in green and black identify the image as a work by the Giac Master.