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Following the Star17

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas (Calvin Coolidge)

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Following the Star17

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  1. 17 The Magi Following the star

  2. The St Albans Psalter, also known as the Albani Psalter or the Psalter of Christina of Markyate, is an English illuminated manuscript, one of several Psalters known to have been created at or for St Albans Abbey in the 12th century Alexis Master (active 1121-1146) Nativity

  3. Alexis Master (active 1121-1146) St Albans Psalter Shepherds Alexis Master (active 1121-1146) St Albans Psalter Magi and Herod

  4. The St. Albans Psalter (c. 1125-1135), is generally regarded as the earliest surviving masterpiece of Anglo-Norman painting. Its extensive picture cycle includes over 200 historiated initials accompanying the psalms and prayers. The original Psalter is kept at the Church of St Godehard in Hildesheim. A copy of an ancient religious book, created in St Albans almost a thousand years ago, has been given to the Si.Albans city's cathedral. Alexis Master (active 1121-1146) St Albans Psalter Nativity (detail)

  5. Alexis Master (active 1121-1146) St Albans Psalter Psalm 136 Initial S (detail)

  6. Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge two of a sequence of 46 Biblical illustrations (c.1270-80) inserted at the front of a fourteenth-century Psalter (English). The Magi and Herod The Nativity

  7. Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge Angel and shepherds The Magi are warned

  8. Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge The journey of the Magi The Adoration of the Magi

  9. Hours of the Infante Don Alfonso of Castile for Rome use, Spain, Castile, 1460s-70s Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 470 is a 15th century Book of Hours made in a French-Burgundian scriptorium.

  10. Book of Hours for Jean II Le Meingre Boucicaut), Marshal of France, which was created between 1410 and 1415. This Book of Hours is currently in the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. Workshop of the Boucicaut Master, Paris, about 1415 - 1420 Getty museum

  11. Book of Hours for Jean II Le Meingre Boucicaut, 1410-1415

  12. Book of Hours for Jean II Le Meingre Boucicaut, 1410-1415

  13. Book of Hours for Jean II Le Meingre Boucicaut, 1410-1415

  14. Adorazione dei Magi – 1400 Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale

  15. Hours of Catherine of Cleves (produced in about 1440)

  16. Hours for (mostly) Windesheim use, The Netherlands, Delft c. 1415-20

  17. Stonyhurst Hours for Sarum use, Southern Netherlands, possibly Bruges, c. 1400-15 StanisławSamostrzelnik (1490–1541)

  18. Book of Hours, c.1500 Adoration of the Magi National Library of the Netherlands

  19. Bedford Master. Visitation Beginning of XV cent Hours of Philippot de Nanterre for Amiens use,, c. 1420 The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, ca. 1324–28

  20. Codex Bruchsal German illuminated manuscript with two scenes of the Magi, ca.1220 Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe Unknown Ottonian, Regensburg, about 1030 - 1040 Getty Museum LA

  21. Book of Hours, c.1500 German codex 15-501 The adoration of the kings

  22. Simon Bening's Flowers Book of Hours

  23. Books of Hours are among the most striking examples of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Commissioned by wealthy men and women for their private religious devotions, these beautifully decorated books contain prayers for the eight canonical hours of the day. Francesco Di Giorgio Martini Nativity 1460- Private collection

  24. Victoria and Albert Museum

  25. Simon Marmion (1420-1489) was a French or Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy of Burgundy in the Southern Netherlands. He was patronized by Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy from 1454 when he was one of several artists called to Lille to work on the decorations for the Feast of the Pheasant. Book of Hours (Use of Cambrai) In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment, France, Valenciennes, c. 1475-1480 1 large and 14 small miniatures by the Workshop of Simon Marmion

  26. Simon Marmion (1420-1489) Book of Hours (Use of Cambrai)

  27. Simon Marmion (1420-1489) Book of Hours (Use of Cambrai)

  28. Simon Marmion (1420-1489) was employed by several members of the ducal family, including Charles the Bold and Margaret of York. He was called "the prince of illuminators" by a near contemporary. Three years after his death his widow, Jeanne de Quaroube, married his pupil, the painter Jan Provoost, who on her death inherited the considerable Marmion estate. Simon Marmion (1420-1489) Book of Hours (Use of Cambrai)

  29. La Flora book of hours, before 1489, with 22 full-pages -miniatures of Simon Marmion: Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale

  30. Text and pictures: Internet Copyright: All the images belong to their authors Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu https://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda 2012 Sound: O, holy night - Leontyne Price

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