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Hours of the Virgin
Infancy cycle
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Visitation
Coëtivy Master
Book of Hours for Paris use, France, Paris, c. 1470 (Private Collection). |
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The Flood and Noah’s Ark
Master of the Gospels of Saint Goéry
Psalter-Hours of Jean III de Vy and Perrette Baudoche for Metz use, France, Lorraine (Metz?), c. 1340-50 and c. 1440 (Metz, Bibl. de la ville, MS 1598, f. 46). |
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Infancy cycle
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The traditional illustration for Lauds is the Visitation. The pregnant Virgin “went into the hill country” (as Luke tells us) to her cousin Elizabeth, herself pregnant with John the Baptist, of whom it was prophesized that he would prepare the way for the Lord. The older, slightly stooped, Elizabeth, extends one hand to Mary and places the other on the unborn Savior. The tenderness between women reminds us that brides and wives frequently owned Books of Hours, which were given to them as betrothal or marriage presents.
This belongs with a group of some 30 manuscripts painted by Coëtivy Master, who was the most important Parisian illuminator of the third quarter of the fifteenth century between c. 1450 and 1485. His eponymous name comes from a sumptuous Book of Hours commissioned by Olivier de Coëtivy and his wife, Marie de Valois (Vienna Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1929).
Book of Hours for Paris use, France, Paris, c. 1470 (Private Collection). |
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There are exceptional instances when Books of Hours deviated entirely from the customary sequence of the Infancy of Christ for the Hours of the Virgin. This is one of them. In an extraordinary Psalter-Hours made for Jean III de Vy and Perrette Baudoche, the Hours of the Virgin are illustrated with scenes from the Old Testament. Following the Creation of Adam and Eve at Matins, the Flood and Noah’s Ark illustrate Lauds. Two by two the animals pose in the windows of an amazing golden ark, resembling an enormous beehive, while giant fish swim in the swirling seas. The Sacrifice of Isaac, David before Saul, and so forth, follow to complete the Hours of the Virgin.
Active in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, the Master of the Gospels of Saint Goéry is named for a Gospel Book in the library of Epinal (MS 65), where he painted two large miniatures. He evidently specialized in Books of Hours in the region of Metz.
Psalter-Hours of Jean III de Vy and Perrette Baudoche for Metz use, France, Lorraine (Metz?), c. 1340-50 and c. 1440 (Metz, Bibl. de la ville, MS 1598, f. 46). |
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