The Hours of Isabella Stuart
Hours of the Virgin and scenes from the Apocalypse
Texts and Images
The Hours of the Virgin, the core text in Books of Hours, received a large miniature for each of its eight canonical hours of prayer. The miniatures show events in the Virgin’s life. Every page has a marginal miniature from the cycle illustrating the Apocalypse.
Adoration of the Magi (Hours of the Virgin, Sext)
Like the Annunciation (fol. 29r) and the Adoration of the Child (fol. 65r), this miniature received a spatially ambitious setting, using single-point perspective to create a sense of receding depth. The marginal scene illustrates the Apocalypse cycle. The arms of Isabella Stuart have been added within the initial.