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Walters Art Museum, MS 96

  Dated between 1387 and 1394. The dating is based on references in a prayer to the Peter of Luxembourg who died in 1387 and to Clement VII as still alive(d. 1394).

f. 30: Annunciation. Compare composition to the same subject in the Petites Heures (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 18014, f. 141v( Meiss, 1967, fig. 130), London, British Library, Yates Thompson, MS 27, f. 13v

f. 60: Nativity. Composition has similarities to the same miniature in the Petites Heures (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 18014, f. 38 (Meiss, 1967, fig. 91))

f. 65v: Annunciation to the Shepherds; compare miniature to the Petites Heures (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 18014, f 40v (Meiss, 1967, fig. 92), London, British Library, Yates Thompson 27, f. 70v, and Parma, Bibl. Palatina, lat. 159, f. 56 (see Meiss, 1967, fig. 736)

f. 123: Christ the Judge

f. 138: Funeral Service