Book of Hours (Use of Poitiers)
In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment
France, likely Paris, c. 1505-10
13 large miniatures by the Master of Etienne Poncher and another Parisian illuminator
f. 37v, Mystical Pentecost
 
This is a thoroughly Renaissance manuscript by two Parisian artists contemporary with the rise of the printed Book of Hours in Paris, which influenced the present work. It was perhaps made for the celebrated Belleville family, which maintained important royal connections and whose heraldry appears in a full-page miniature at the end of the manuscript. The original owner, a woman, added the tender and even erotic contemporary note and accounts for the proliferation of saintly women in the litany.
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