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Notes on the family of Pierre De Villers and Jeanne de Chissiret, 1603-1621.
Illuminated miniature of the Virgin and Child in the opening page of the Obsecro Te from the De Villers Book of Hours.
Litany of the Saints page taken from the De Villers Book of Hours
Penitential psalm (psalm 31) taken from the De Villers Book of Hours.
Excerpt from the Short Hours of the Holy Cross and Holy Spirit, De Villers Book of Hours.
Calendar page nine from the De Villers book of Hours. The days of the saint are written in red and blue alternating ink, while the feast days are painted in gold.
Illumination of Saint Barbara "holding the palm of martyrdom and reading from a book with the tower in which her father shut her up in the background (suffrage of Saint Barbara)".
Illumination of Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child across the river (suffrage of Saint Christopher).
Illumination of Saint John the Baptist "standing in the desert pointing to the Lamb of God that rests on the book in John's hand (suffrage of Saint John the Baptist)
Illumination of the Mass of Saint Gregory. " Gregory sees a vision of the risen Christ as he elevates the host at the the consecration, thus eliminating his doubts about the real presence of Christ in the consecrated bread."
Illumination of Job "on the dung-heap being ridiculed by his wife (third nocturn of of matins of the Office of the Dead)".
Illumination of Job "on the dungheap as his wife throws slops out of the window (second nocturn of matins of the Office of the Dead)".
Illumination of St. Jerome in the desert, "beating his chest before an altar on which stands a crucifix, with his lion looking on (first nocturn of the matins of the Office of the Dead, in which the first psalm, Ps. 5, 'Verba mea auribus percipe'…
Full page illumination of the Three Living and the Three Dead "at a roadside cross, and below, Job on the dungheap being consoled by his friends (Office of the Dead in which the readings are taken from the book of Job)".
Full page illumination of David kneeling in prayer, "his psaltery in the ground before him, and below, David as a young man with his slingshot and Goliath with his hand to his head in pain (Penitential Psalms; authorship of the psalms was…
Illumination of the Pentecost "showing the descent of the Holy Spirit as a dove upon the gathered disciples and Mary (Short Hours of the Holy Spirit).
Full page illumination of the Crucifixion "with Mary and John the Evangelist to Christ's right and the Jewish leaders to his left, and below, the Road to Calvary (short hours of the Holy Cross)".
Illumination of the Flight into Egypt (vespers of the Hours of the Virgin).
Illumination of the Presentation in the Temple (none of the Hours of the Virgin)
Illumination of the Adoration of the Magi (sext of the Hours of the Virgin).
Illumination of the Annunciation of the angel to the shepherds (terce of the Hours of the Virgin).
"Illumination of the Nativity (prime of the Hours of the Virgin)."
Illumination of the Visitation or meeting of Mary and Elisabeth (mother of John the Baptist) "in the hill country"
Full page illumination of the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary and the Immaculate Conception below (this is understood by the meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate).
Full page illumination of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane with apostles sleeping below.
"Illumination of St. Matthew with his symbol of the winged man or angel (gospel pericope)."
Illumination of St. John the Evangelist. He is holding a chalice full of snakes "in reference to his overcoming poison (gospel pericope)"
Illumination of the Coronation of the Virgin "by God the Father as the Dove hovers overhead (compline of the Hours of the Virgin)".
A prayer book intended for use by lay persons for the purpose of daily recited the Divine Office, a complicated series of prayers following sections written mostly in medieval Latin: full calendar (in French), standard pericopes of the gospels (John…