Layout: 1 column, 26 lines Decoration: 1 4-line initial "R" in blue with white highlights set on gold grounds infilled with flowers and foliag; 6 2-line and 14 1-line initials and pilcros in burnished gold on blue and burgundy grounds with elborate penwork accents in white and liquid gold Decoration: blue and burgundy bar line-fillers with gold lozenges and accents; running titles, prompts, and rubrics in red 10-line miniature opening a Mass for the faithful dead depicting a funeral scene depicting a black shoruded caskey in a chapel flanked by a pair of priests holding books Ruled in pink crayon Provenance: Donated by Susan Coulter (Newtown Square, PA) in honor of Herbert Coulter, June 2022 Illuminated by a follower of Jean Pichore (see Les Enluminures, Ltd. France 1500: The Pictorial Arts at the Dawn of the Renaissance. Ed. By S. Hindman and A. Bergeron-Foote, 2010, p. 118. The original parent MS was possibly produced for the Carmelite foundation in Nantes, or for Guy de Baudreiuil, Abbot of St. Martin-aux-Bois (1491-1530). Both claims are based on interpretation of the iconographical significance of a crowned heart depicted in the MS as either a symbol of the crowned heart of Anne of Brittany, whose heart was removed post-mortem and enshrined at Nantes. The heart has also been recognized as the heraldic device of Guy de Baudreuil. Incipit: omnibus protectionis tue Explicit: Absolve domine animas omnium fidelium Texts, readings, and chants for All Saints and a Mass for the faithful dead ("Missa pro fidelibus deffunctis")
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