Collects, sermons and lessons for the Nativity of the Virgin, Annunciation, Purification and Assumption

Texts and Images

The inclusion of these texts, not found in Parisian Books of Hours, indicates the influence of manuscripts from Brabant and Hainaut, and the diocese of Liège. Each of the Virgin’s four feasts received a large historiated initial showing the relevant episode in her life. They were painted by a single artist (hand D) on burnished gold grounds, with occasional diapered patterns (fol. 271v). The text and images show the water damage that the manuscript suffered when the collection of John Boykett Jarman was flooded in 1846.