Collection of Masses for High Feasts

Pseudo-Jacquemart de Hesdin; Boucicaut Master

about 1410

Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink, Tempera Colors, Ink

J. Paul Getty Museum

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