Virgin Mary: Annunciation The Archangel Gabriel is raising his right hand and holding a staff in his left hand as he kneels behind the Virgin Mary, who is nimbed, has her hands joined, and is kneeling at a prie-dieu and looking back over her right shoulder at Gabriel. Above is a dove, symbol of the Holy Ghost in a mandorla. Carved on the side of the prie-dieu is a winged figure, possibly an angel, who is holding a snake. The scene is in a wood-paneled, windowed room with a canopied bed and with a vase of flowers in the foreground on a ledge.
The miniature is within an elaborate architectural frame, decorated at the top with the head and wings of an angel and at the bottom with a mask. The nscription in the lower margin is ALPHA.

Christ: Crucifixion Christ, wearing a short loincloth and with rays as a nimbus and a crown of thorns, is affixed with three nails to a cross bearing the titulus INRI. He is flanked by Longinus and Longinus piercing His side with a spear and the Virgin Mary, who is nimbed and veiled with her hands joined. She is supported by Evangelist John, who is nimbed and has his right hand on her right shoulder and his left at her left side. A holy woman wearing a headdress kneels at the foot of the cross orant. The scene is in a landscape with a city in the background.
The miniature is surrounded by an architectural frame, decorated at top and bottom with putti holding shields. The inscription in the lower margin is OMEGA.

Computation table of Golden Numbers.

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius In a medallion in the right margin, Aquarius stands in a stream pouring water from vases, one held in each hand.
Month, Occupation: January In a vignette in the lower margin is a man wearing a hood and hat, holding his right hand to his lips, and seated with his back to a fire on a bench at a draped table on which is a covered vessel, a loaf (?), and knives (?). The vignette is flanked by two heraldric shields, one of the Knights of Rhodes (gules, a cross argent) and the other incorporating the Knights of Rhodes (quarterly, 1 and 4 gules, a cross argent, 2 and 3 argent, a chief dancettee gules).
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry inhabited by a rabbit.

Zodiac Sign: Pisces In a medallion in the right margin, two fish are facing opposite directions and connected by a cord. The medallion islabeled PISCES.
Month, Occupation: February In a vignette in the lower margin, a man, wearing a hood and hat, is seated on a bench before a fireplace and is warming his right foot.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including strawberries. In the lower margin are heraldic shields of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent).

Zodiac Sign: Aries In a medallion in the right margin is a ram. The medallion is labeled ARIES.
Month, Occupation: March In a vignette in the lower margin, a man is trimming vines (vintage).
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin is a heraldic shield (argent, a chief dancettee gules).

Zodiac Sign: Taurus In a medallion in the right margin is a bull. The medallion is labeled TAURUS.
Month, Occupation: April In a vignette in the lower margin is a man wearing a hat, holding a branch in his right hand, and standing in a rocky landscape.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin are the initials A and P linked by a love knot.

Zodiac Sign: Gemini In a medallion in the right margin are two nude male figures who are standing each with one hand on the other's shoulder. Their other hands are clasped together in front. The medallion is labeled GEMINI.
Month, Occupation: May In a vignette in the lower margin,a man is wearing a hat, holding a falcon with his extended right hand, and standing in a rocky landscape with a castle in the background.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly vair and gules).

Zodiac Sign: Cancer In a medallion in the right margin is a crab. The medallion is labelled CANCER.
Month, Occupation: June In a vignette in the lower margin, a man wearing a hat is holding a scythe.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin, the initials A and P are linked by a love knot.

Zodiac Sign: Leo In a medallion in the right margin is a lion. The medallion is labeled LEO.
Month, Occupation: July In a vignette in the lower margin, a man with a sickle is harvesting wheat.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry. In the lower margin, the initials A and P are linked by love knot.

Zodiac Sign: Virgo A standing woman is in a medallion in the right margin. The medallion is labelled VIRGO.
Month, Occupation: August In a vignette in the lower margin, a man is threshing with a flail.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. A heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent)is in the lower margin.

Zodiac Sign: Libra Scales are in a medallion in the right margin. The medallion is labelled LIBRA.
Month, Occupation: September In a vignette in the lower margin is a man in a vat crushing grapes.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin, the initials A and P are linked by a love knot.

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio A scorpion is in a medallion in the right margin. The medallion is labelled SCORPIUS.
Month, Occupation: October In a vignette in the lower margin is a man wearing a hat and sowing seed.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius In a medallion in the right margin is a centaur with a bow and arrow. The medallion is labelled SAGITTARIUS.
Month, Occupation: November In vignette in lower margin, man wearing hat holding stick with both hands, before trees, standing amid pigs.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. The heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent) is in the lower margin.

Zodiac Sign: Capricornus In a medallion in the right margin is a hybrid animal. The medallion is labelled CAPRICORNUS.
Month, Occupation: December In a vignette in the lower margin is a man wearing a cap and an apron and raising an ax with both hands over a pig standing near a basket.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin, the initials A and P are linked by love knot.

Christ: Bearing Cross Christ, , wearing a crown of thorns with rays as a nimbus, carries a tau cross on his left shoulder. Simon of Cyrene, who wears a hat, carries the foot of the cross with his right hand. Between them, in front of the cross, a soldier, who wears a sword at his waist, holds a scourge in his raised right hand. Behind the cross are the Virgin Mary, who wears a wimpled veil and whose hands are joined; Evangelist John (?); two soldiers; a horseman; and four men, some carrying weapons, including a spear, a broad ax, and a halberd.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. The heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) is in the lower margin.

Five medallions in an arched frame:
1) The evangelist symbol of John: a nimbed eagle with its claws holding a scroll inscribed SANCTUS IOHANNES EUANGELISTA. Between the first two medallions is the inscription IHS.
2) The evangelist symbol of Matthew: a nimbed angel kneeling on one knee with hands holding a scroll inscribed SANCTUS MATHEUS EUANGEL(ISTA).
3) The lamb of God is cross-nimbed and holds a cross-staff carrying a cross-inscribed banner with its right front leg. The frame of the medallion is inscribed AGNUS DEI QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI MISERERE NOBIS ET DONA NOBIS PACEM. The heraldic shields of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent) and Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly vair and gules) flank the medallion above and below it is flanked by the initials A and P linked by love knots.
4) The evangelist symbol of Luke: a nimbed and winged ox holding in its mouth a scroll inscribed SANCTUS LUCAS EUANG(ELISTA).
5) The evangelist symbol of Mark: a nimbed and winged lion draped with a scroll inscribed SANCTUS MARCUS EUANGE(LISTA).
The border is inscribed on two sides of the miniature frame: on the left, TE DEUM LAUDAMUS TE DOMINUM CONFITEMUR TE ETERNUM and on the bottom, the motto of Pierre de Bosredont, DI CHOSSON DE NIBORO, and his name, PIERRE DE BOSREDONT.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, inhabited by a rabbit. A scroll in the left margin is inscribed DI CHOSSON DE NIB(ORO), and one in the lower margin, P DE BOSREDONT.

Trinity: Mercy Seat God, nimbed and wearing a papal tiara, is seated on a canopied throne holding a tau cross on which a nimbed Christ, wearing a short loin cloth, is affixed with three nails andis bleeding from his wounds. The dove of the Holy Ghost is between them, near right shoulder of God. The scene is in a windowed room.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent).

Evangelist, John: Scene, Devil Stealing Inkpot On the shore of Patmos, the devil spills (?) ink from an inkpot hung around the neck of an eagle. Evangelist John, holding a quill in his right hand, is seated at right with an open book his on lap. The Virgin Mary, with joined(?) hands, appears in a mandorla above the city in the background.
The argins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including thistles and strawberries. In the lower margin, a monogram of the initials A and P are linked by a love knot. Text, Gospel Sequence.

Virgin Mary and Christ Child The Virgin Mary, who is nimbed, holds the nude Christ Child, who is cross-nimbed, wears beads around his neck, and raises his right hand in blessing. She is seated on a canopied throne with a backdrop inscribed MARIA MATER GRACIE MATER MISERICORDIE TU NOS AB HOSTE PROTEGE ET HORA MORTIS. At the left is Pierre de Bosredont as donor. He is wearing a tunic inscribed with a Maltese cross, his hands are joined, and he kneels at a draped prie dieu on which a book rests on a cushion. Before the prie dieu is a dog. At right is an angel with joined hands. The figures are in a windowed room framed by an arch supported by two slender columns. The walls are covered with a drapery decorated with peacock feathers. Inscribed on the border of the drapery and only partially visible is AVE R[EGINA] CELO[RUM] MA[...] MARIE MATER. On both the left and lower borders is the monogram AP flanked by the inscriptions PIERRE DE BOSREDONT and DI CHOSSON DE NIBORO,.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament inhabited by a peacock standing on the monogram AP, the initials linked by vines, and by two rabbits flanking the heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).

Five male saints are all nimbed. One is tonsured, one is wearing a bishop's miter and vestments and carrying a three-barred processional cross(?), and another is holding a sword.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) above a rabbit. Text, Mass of the Virgin.

Christ: Crucifixion, Nailed to Cross —— Christ, wearing a short loincloth and a crown of thorns with rays as a nimbus, lies on a tau cross. His hands, which are affixed to the cross, are bleeding from the wounds. One torturer hammers a nail into His feet; and another holds the end of the rope binding His legs. In the foreground is a basin with a sponge(?). Standing at the right are two men, both wearing hats. The left hand of one is touching the right arm of the other, whose right hand is extended toward Christ and whose left hand holds a staff. In the background three women, two nimbed, two with joined hands, all kneel. A nimbed and veiled Virgin Mary. with hands joined, kneels and leans toward a nimbed Evangelist John, who holds her left arm with his left hand. The scene is set below a tri-lobe arch with two medallions in spandrels.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry and a thistle. Vines emerge from a vase in the right margin. In the lower margin, the initials A and P are linked by a love knot. Text, Mass of the Virgin.

Christ: Crucifixion —— A cross-nimbed Christ with his eyes closed, wearing a crown of thorns and a short loincloth, is affixed to a cross with three nails. He is flanked above by the sun and the moon and below by a nimbed and veiled Virgin Mary, with her hands joined, and a nimbed Evangelist John, who has his right hand on his breast and is gazing up toward Christ. Bones are in the foreground at the foot of the cross. The scene is set in a hilly landscape and has a building and trees in the background.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry, and are inhabited by a peacock. In the left margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly vair and gules).

Christ: Flagellation —— Christ, with rays as a nimbus and wearing a short loincloth, stands in front of a column, His arms are tied behind the column, and He is flanked by two torturers. One is bald and is raising his left hand, and the other is raising a scourge in his right hand and holding a rope attached to His ankles in the left. At left three men wearing hats stand in a doorway through which a city is visible in the background. At right a man wearing a hat and holding a sack(?) watches through the opening. In the distance behind him is a woman wearing a berbette. In the foreground is a block or sarcophagus inscribed IN ANNO XVE XXIX. The scene is set in a room decorated with a relief of putti.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent). Text, Short Hours of the Cross.

Pentecost ——— A nimbed Virgin Mary with joined hands kneels and looks up. She is flanked by twelve nimbed Apostles, each with a tongue of fire on his nimbus. All kneel, and some join their hands in prayer. Above, a nimbed dove of the Holy Ghost hovers amid flames. The scene is set in a windowed room with drapery inscribed EMITTE SPIRITUM TUUM ET CREABUNTUR ET RENOVABIS FACIEM TERRE in the background.
The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry, inhabited by a rabbit and a bird. In the left margin is theheraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly vair and gules).

Holy Ghost amid Rays in Mandorla ― The margins are decorated with foliate and floreate ornament, including a strawberry. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) atop a rabbit. Text, Short Hours of the Holy Spirit.

Christ: Crowned with Thorns — Christ, with a crown of thorns and wearing a purple cloak, is seated. At left are Pilate(?), who is wearing turban-like headgear, holding a staff in his left hand, and indicating Christ with his right hand, and a torturer, who is raising a club in his right hand. At right are two other torturers. One is wearing a helmet and is touching the crown of thorns with a club held in both hands, and the other is kneeling on one knee, is holding a hat in his left hand, and is placing a stick in the right hand of Christ with his right hand. The scene is set in a room with a window through which a landscape is visible. Above the window is a relief of a shield flanked by two fantastic animals.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent). Text, Short Hours of the Holy Spirit.

Christ: Ecce Homo — Christ, , partially draped and wearing a crown of thorns with rays as a nimbus, stands on a balcony inscribed ECCE HOMO holding a stick in His right hand. Next to Him is Pilate, wearing a garment with a vair collar and turban-like headgear. He holds a staff in his left hand and indicates Christ with his right. Below, two groups of men and soldiers look toward each other. One soldier is armed with a saber, one with a halberd, and others with spears. The men at the head of each group raise their hands toward Christ and Pilate.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament. In the lower margin are the initials A and P linked by a love knot. Text, Short Hours of the Holy Spirit.

Virgin Mary: Annunciation — A nimbed Virgin Mary with joined hands kneels at a draped prie-dieu on top of which is a book. She looks back to a nimbed Archangel Gabriel raising his right hand and holding a scroll inscribed AVE GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM with his left. Above right in a window is a bust of God, with a crossed nimbus, raising His right hand in a blessing and holding a tripartite globe surmounted by a cross with His left hand. He is amid rays, some of which reach the Virgin Mary. Next to her is a pedestal on top of which is a vase of white flowers. In the background is a draped altar below a canopy with a retable that has a relief of an angel standing next to God. In the relief, God has a crossed projecting nimbus. His right hand is raised in a blessing, and He is possibly holding a cross-surmounted globe in His left hand. Behind the altar is tapestry inscribed ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MICHI SECUNDUM and AVE GRACIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM. The scene is set within a windowed room with a wooden ceiling. The miniature is surrounded by an architectural frame of two columns with their capitals supporting an arch.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament, including a viola and berries, inhabited by a bird. In the left margin, the initials A and P are linked by a love knot. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) flanked by two rabbits.

Virgin Mary: Visitation — A nimbed Virgin Mary and a nimbed Elizabeth, who is wearing a wimpled veil, embrace. Above in a starry sky, rays emerge from the sun(?). The scene is set in a landscape with trees, bushes, and rocky outcrops. A city, buildings, and a stream with a swan are in the background.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by an owl and two rabbits. In the lower margin is an overpainted, unidentified heraldic shield (quarterly, or and gules).

Christ: Crucifixion — A cross-nimbed Christ wearing a crown of thorns and a short loincloth, is affixed toa tau cross with three nails and is bleeding from His wounds. He is flanked by a nimbed and veiled Virgin Mary, kneeling with joined hands, and a nimbed Evangelist John, also kneeling with joined hands. The scene is set beneath a starry sky.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament. In the lower margin is the heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent). Text, Hours of the Virgin.

Christ: Harrowing of Hell — Christ has a nimbus of rays, is wearing a short loincloth and a cloak, and is holding a cross staff in his left hand. The foremost man in a group of souls of men and women extends his right hand to the right hand of Christ. He is stepping out of a mandorla onto the head of a devil. In the background smoke emerges from holes in earth and a devil stands behinds rocks..
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament. In the lower margin, a monogram of the initials A and P are linked by a love knot. Text, Hours of the Virgin.

Christ: Nativity — The Christ Child is nude, nimbed, and lying amid rays on a bed. He is flanked by a nimbed Virgin Mary and Joseph the Carpenter. Christ’s right hand is raised, and both Mary and Joseph have joined hands. Mary is kneeling on the bed, and Joseph is kneeling on the ground with a walking stick hooked over his left arm. Behind them an ass and an ox stand at the manger. Only their heads are visible. The scene is set within a shed. There is a landscape in background, and above, the sun emits rays, some of which shine through a hole in the roof onto the Christ Child.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament, including a grapevine and a strawberry, and inhabited by a bird and a rabbit. The heraldic shield of Pierre Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) is in the lower margin.

Christ: In Gethsemane — Christ, with a rayed nimbus, kneels with His joined hands extended in front of a rocky outcrop above which is a chalice and above that a host (wafer) in a mandorla. In the foreground three apostles, all nimbed, are asleep sitting on the ground resting their heads on their right hands. A city and a group of people, possibly soldiers, are in the background.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament, including a strawberry. A monogram of the initials A and P linked by a love knot is in the lower margin. Text, Hours of the Virgin.

Shepherds: Annunciation — Amid sheep, two shepherds, one who is wearing a hood, holding a pedum with his left hand, and raising his right hand, and the other, who is standing next to a hat and playing a bagpipe, look up toward a bust of an angel. The angel is amid rays in an arc of heaven and is holding a scroll inscribed GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO ET IN TE[RRA]. . Behind the sheep is a shepherdess holding distaff and spindle. In the background are hills, buildings, and a body of water with a swan in it.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by a rabbit. The heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) is in the lower margin.

Christ: Resurrection — A nimbed Christ stands in a mandorla atop a rocky outcrop. He is partially draped and is raising his right hand in blessing and holding a cross staff in His left hand. . In front of Him are three soldiers, one asleep and the other two, one of whom holds a halberd, looking toward Him,. The scene is set in a landscape with trees and buildings in the background.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament. A monogram of the initials A and P linked by a love knot is in the lower margin. Text, Hours of the Virgin.

Christ: Presentation — Anna the Prophetess, holding a basket containing two doves in her right hand and a candle in her left hand, stands behind a nimbed Virgin Mary holding a nude Christ Child with a crossed nimbus. She kneels on one knee before a draped altar with a canopy. Behind the altar Simeon, wearing a high-priest miter, extends his draped hands over the altar. At his right stands a man wearing a conical hat. The scene is in a windowed room hung with tapestries inscribed LUMEN AD RE[UALATIONEM]; SERUUM TUUM DOMINE SECUNDUM; NUNC DI[MITTIS].
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by two rabbits. The heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) is in the lower margin.

Innocents: Massacre — A woman holding a wooden spoon or ladle in her raised right hand reaches her left hand up to a bleeding, swaddled infant held in the left hand of a soldier, who is raising a saber in his right hand. Another woman, kneeling on one knee, extends her left hand to the face of a soldier and with her right hand grasps his left arm. He has a dagger in his right hand and holds a bleeding infant by one arm with his left hand. Another bleeding infant lies on the ground at his feet. At right, two soldiers and another man(?) stand with Herod the Great, who is crowned and is extending his right hand and holding a scepter in his left hand. Above, the sun or a star emits rays. The scene is set in a landscape with hills and towers and a body of water in the distance.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by a rabbit. A monogram of the initials A and P linked by love knot is in the left margin.

Christ: Flight into Egypt — A nimbed and veiled Virgin Mary holding a nimbed, swaddled Christ Child is seated sideways on a bridled ass. Joseph the Carpenter, wearing a hat, walks in front of the ass holding the reins with his right hand, his left hand touching a pedum draped over his left shoulder. Above, the sun or a star emits rays. The scene is set in a landscape with hills, towers, buildings, trees, and a body of water in the background.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament including a pear(?), strawberry, and thistle and inhabited by two rabbits. The heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) is in the left margin,

Angel, Archangel Michael: Transfixing Satan — Flanked by two trees and standing on Satan, a nimbed The Archangel Michael raises a sword in his right hand and holds a buckler in his left hand. Two hills are in the background.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by a rabbit. The heraldic shield of Hospitallers (gules, a cross argent) is in the lower margin.Text, Hours of the Virgin.

Christ: Last Judgment — A partially nude Christ, with a crown of thorns, bleeding wounds, and a cross projecting nimbus, is seated on a rainbow with His feet on a globe. He is raising his right arm in blessing. , He is flanked by two angels playing horns and above by two suns or stars emitting rays. Below Him, three men, one with arms crossed on his breast and one with joined hands raised, and two women, one with joined hands and the other with joined hands raised, all stand in graves. The scene is set in a hilly landscape with bushes and with buildings in background.
The margins are decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by a rabbit. The heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules) is in the left margin.