Black Hours, Morgan MS 493
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The Black Hours, MS M.493 is an illuminated book of hours completed in Bruges between 1460 and 1475. It consists of 121 pages with Latin text written in Gothic minuscule script. The words are arranged
Office of the Dead, folios 121v–122r; the manuscript's closing leaves
Pentecost, folios 18v–19r, c. 1460–75. Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Each folio measures 170 × 122 mm.
Massacre of the Innocents, folios 62v–63r; Hours of the Virgin
The Flight into Egypt, Folios 66v–67r
Philip the Good
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Philip III, also known as Philip the Good, was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death in 1467. He was a member of a cadet line of the House of Valois, to which all 15th-century kings of France bel
Philip, wearing the collar of firesteels of the Order of the Golden Fleece which he instituted (copy of a Rogier van der Weyden work of c. 1450)
The burghers of Ghent surrender to Philip after the Battle of Gavere. Illustration from a contemporary manuscript.
Rogier van der Weyden miniature 1447–48. Philip dresses his best, in an extravagant chaperon, to be presented with a History of Hainault by the author, Jean Wauquelin, flanked by his son Charles and his chancellor Nicolas Rolin.
Portrait of Isabella of Portugal from the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1445–1450