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The Hours of Henry VIII is a 15th-century
File:Luke_in_Hours_of_VIII.jpg, f.9 Luke's Lesson: Luke Writing; Border: Annunciation
File:Chirst-child.jpg, The Magi visiting the Christ-child
File:Hours-of-Henry-VIII-folio-101v.jpg, f.101v Hours of the Holy Spirit: Pentecost.
Depicting the descent of the Holy Spirit from Acts 2:1–4
Hours of Henry VIII
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{{commons category, Hours of Henry VIII - Morgan Lib MsH.8 Illuminated books of hours 15th-century illuminated manuscripts Collection of the Morgan Library & Museum
The Hours of Henry VIII is a 15th-century illuminated
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* Illuminate (disambi ...
book of hours
The book of hours is a Christian devotional book used to pray the canonical hours. The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscrip ...
, painted by Jean Poyet in Tours
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. Its 400 pages contain 55 full-page miniatures. It is housed under shelfmark
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MS H.8 in the Morgan Library & Museum
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, New York.
History
The Hours of Henry VIII, one ofJean Poyer
Jean Poyer (alt: Poyet), was a French miniature painter and manuscript illuminator of the late 15th century. As a multitalented artist - illuminator, painter, draftsman, and festival designer active from 1483 until his death - he was a painte ...
's best-known works, receives its name from "the possible but unproven eighteenth-century tradition" that it was once owned by King Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
. The manuscript belonged to several later English kings including George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
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The binding
The manuscript is bound in red velvet. Henry VIII's coat of arms, monogram and motto, "Honi soit qui mal y pense
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On the manuscript's last blank leaf, there is a note supplied by George Wade
Field Marshal George Wade (1673 – 14 March 1748) was a British Army officer who served in the Nine Years' War, War of the Spanish Succession, Jacobite rising of 1715 and War of the Quadruple Alliance before leading the construction of barra ...
(1673–1748), one of its owners:
Miniatures
Depicting the descent of the Holy Spirit from Acts 2:1–4
References
Sources
*Roger S. Wieck ''et al.'', ''The Hours of Henry VIII'', George Braziller/The Morgan Library & Museum *Morgan Library & MuseuHours of Henry VIII
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