Left: The Flagellation. One of caryatids in border holds a flail. f.53v.
Right: Nativity. Figures in lower margin include acrobats, a monster king playing on a large jawbone while a dog dances, and a youth putting a rock .f.54.
The Hours...
Left: Text page of Matins of the Hours of Virgin. Note modish woman, and man shouldering yoke with two buckets, like those used for bath water. f.19v
Right: Text page of Matins. Line endings show two figures seated on beasts. Bearded man above...
Left: Christ before Pilate. Monster caryatid at right is blowing reed pipe which ends in cow horn. f.34v.
Right: Visitation. Half Figure of a soldier within the initial, stalking the rabbit in the right margin, a parody of valor.. f/35.
The...
Left: The Betrayal of Christ. Two men in margin on goats practice tilting at a barrel. f.15v.
Right: The Annunciation. Kneeling figure in the initial represents Queen Jeanne. Below, figures play ""frog in the middle"", a...
Text pages of Hours of St. Louis.
Left: The uppermost figures is posing as a fiddle player with a spoon for a bow. Within the initial a monk shows his book to the reader. f. 158v.
Right: The drolleries represent a soldier with a scimitar and a...
Left; Miracle of the Breviary. While St. Louis a prisoner of Saracens during his first crusade, his prayer book, lost during battle, miraculously returned to him. f.154v. Right: Text page of Office of St. Louis, Grotesque figures in initial and...
Left: St. Louis Washes feet of poor. Joinville stands behind Louis, and refuses to participate in any such act of humility.148v.
Right: Text page of office of St. Louis. Half-monk within initial uses bellows for a lute. In upoper right,...
Left: St. Louis Administers to the Sick. The Miniature depicts a medieval hospital. Two beggars support the columns. f.142v.
Right: Text page of Office of St. Louis. Half monster figures in initial and margins represent soldier, musician with...
Left: St. Louis feed a leprous monk. Below the miniature a woman and two old men fight with sticks and baskets. f.123v.
Right: Text page of Office of St. Louis. Note monster illustrations. f. 124.
The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux, Queen of...
Left: Miracle of St. Louis. Queen shown praying near tomb of St. Louis, with his statute. Figures seated by tomb represent men miraculously healed of blindness. f.102v.
Right: Education of St. Louis, St. Louis, crowned king as Louis IX when...
Left: Ressurrection. Word ""Corr"" beneath one of sleeping soldiers indicates that the text had been corrected through this page. f.94v.
Right: Text page of compline. Original leave which was opposite the Ressurection is...
Left: Entombment. Composition resembles Duccio, Maesta. f.82v.
Right: Flight into Egypt. Marginal scenes illus. apocraphal acct which tells how heathen idols fell from pedestals as Jesus passed, and how new sown wheat of farmer sprang into full...
Left: The Deposition. Caryatids, in unusual positions, bear the weight of frame of picture. f.75v
Right: Presentation in Temple. Marginal donkey perfroms to beat of a frame drum. f.76.
The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux, Queen of France....
Left: The Crucifixion. Miniature follows composition of Duccio's Maesta in Siena, finished 1311. f.68v.
Right: Adoration of Magi. Within initial a groom holds horses of Three Kings. Below, Herod orders Massacre of Innocents..f.69.
The...
Left: Christ Enthroned. Savior, in attitude of blessing, holds gospels and cross and is surrounded by symbols of four evangelists. f.182v
Right: Text page of psalms of Penitence. Within initial, monster woman is playing the cymboals. In the...
Text pages of Office of St. Louis.
Left: The figure in the peaked cap is gesticulating with his fingers, and the monster in the initial chews on his robe. f.176v.
Right: In the margin is the half-figure of a hunter about to place wicket trap, used...
Left: Procession of St. Dennis. On Aug.25, 1298, Louis beatified and his body elevated at St. Denis, royal abbey church near Paris. Philip IV, and attendants shown carrying relics in procession. f.173v.
Right: Text page of office of St. Louis. ...
Text pages of Office of St. Louis.
Left: The first line ends in a mitred bishop with his crozier. Below is a dog exhuasted from chasing the rabbit running happily away four lines farther down the page. f. 167v
Right: The upper marginal figure ties...
Left: Death of St. Louis. Died in Aug.25, 1270, near city of Carthage on second crusade. Shown on deathbed as soul carried up to heaven. f.165v.
Right: Text page of office of St. Louis. Several of cavorting figures are playing musical...
Left: Text page of Terce of the Hours of the Virgin. Lines end in a dog, a rabbit, and monsters. Beneath the initial a doctor examine a flask with aid of medical book. f.65v.
Right: Text page of Terce. Three monsters end the lines and estend...
