Collection of Masses for High Feasts (Main View (.59v) / book image source)

This manuscript contains the texts used for masses on important feast days in the liturgical year, such as Christmas, Easter, and the Assumption of the Virgin. The manuscript's small scale suggests that a layperson used this book to follow along with the masses, and it was likely once part of a larger devotional text, probably a book of hours.

Most of the mass texts begin with an image depicting the event from Christ's life or the saint that the feast celebrates. Many of the manuscript's miniatures were painted by the Pseudo-Jacquemart de Hesdin, who most likely worked at the court of Jean, duc de Berry from around 1380 until about 1410. The vibrant color palette, the soft modeling of figures, and the delicate gold ivy-leaf borders on each page in this manuscript are common both in the Pseudo-Jacquemart's work and in International style illumination from Paris.