Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

083. MS G.55 fol. 36v

Hours of Pierre de Bosredont

ca. 1465
France, Langres
157 x 113 mm
MS G.55 fol. 36v

Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984

Virgin Mary: Annunciation — A nimbed Virgin Mary with joined hands kneels at a draped prie-dieu on top of which is a book. She looks back to a nimbed Archangel Gabriel raising his right hand and holding a scroll inscribed AVE GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM with his left. Above right in a window is a bust of God, with a crossed nimbus, raising His right hand in a blessing and holding a tripartite globe surmounted by a cross with His left hand. He is amid rays, some of which reach the Virgin Mary. Next to her is a pedestal on top of which is a vase of white flowers. In the background is a draped altar below a canopy with a retable that has a relief of an angel standing next to God. In the relief, God has a crossed projecting nimbus. His right hand is raised in a blessing, and He is possibly holding a cross-surmounted globe in His left hand. Behind the altar is tapestry inscribed ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MICHI SECUNDUM and AVE GRACIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM. The scene is set within a windowed room with a wooden ceiling. The miniature is surrounded by an architectural frame of two columns with their capitals supporting an arch.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament, including a viola and berries, inhabited by a bird. In the left margin, the initials A and P are linked by a love knot. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) flanked by two rabbits.