The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 6, 2026

A manuscript page features a scene of figures in blue and red robes kneeling before an infant within an arched frame. Below, three lines of black text are nested in a block. Against a solid gold background, an elaborate border of scrolling blue leaves and pops of red flowers surrounds the layout. The composition is densely patterned with foliage and birds, with shapes defined by fine black outlines and vibrant colors.

Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 56r, Adoration with Shepherds/Nativity

c. 1470

Master of the Geneva Latini

(French, active Rouen, 1460–80)
France, Rouen
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Codex: 19.5 x 13.1 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Gift of the Feiss family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Feiss 1952.227.56.a
Location: 113 French Tapestries & Illuminated Manuscripts(not visible)

Description

In the late 1400s and early 1500s Rouen was an established and important center of book production. The city’s cathedral had a wealthy chapter that spent large sums of money to commission books and to maintain its extensive library. The stationers and booksellers would have likely been concentrated in or near the cathedral precinct. This artist, named after a manuscript now in Geneva, was Rouen’s principal illuminator during the second half of the 1400s.
  • W. Loring Andrews, NY
    Paul Louis Feiss, Cleveland
    W. Loring Andrews, NY; Paul Louis Feiss, Cleveland
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