A wonderful collection of Books of Hours, on tour from the Morgan Library, was on exhibit until this past Sunday at the St. Louis Art Museum, where I had the greyt privilege to see it. It was inspiring! All those on this list who can get to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in October this year through January 2006, please, get thee to the museum! One of my particularly favorite works (that is, next to the very moving Farnese Hours illuminated by the legendary master Clovis, which actually had me in tears! I know, I'm far too sentimental!) is the Hours of Pierre de Bosredont (ca 1465, Langres, France). He was Grand Prior in the Champagne for the Knights of Rhodes, and from what I can tell from his prayer book, quite the bon vivant! He had a particular love for The Hunt and so identified with Hubert of Liege, patron saint of hunters. In an already charmingly personalized book, he has within the suffrages section, on facing pages, an image of St. Hubert at the time of his vision on one side, and himself on a joyous hunt on the other. He is on horseback, looking quite youthful and jaunty with his stylish hat! He is surrounded by his lovely hounds. Within the splendid border are more dogs, and a hawk. It is said that on most of the pages, there are the initials A and P love knotted together; the initials of he and his wife's first names. What a darling! I would have been all over "Lucky Pierre" like white on rice! But, I digress... I've found the images of these two facing pages in the Morgan Library online catalog. Let's see if this link works! Perhaps, if those of us working at the art of illumination were to create Books of Hours for the Current Middle Ages, we should include some saint appropriate to the Internet within our suffrages pages! Would the iconography of this saint include him or her holding a lap-top upon a tray? Would our pilgrimage badges be tiny pewter mice? But, I digress... http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/single_image2.cfm?imagename=g55.124v.jpg&PAGE=ICA0134453 Greyt Regard, Mevanwy, in the deep, dark wilderness of Calontir
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