Virgin Mary: Visitation

Title: Virgin Mary: Visitation; Link to Morgan resource.
Alternative Title: Visitation from a Book of Hours
Creator: Unknown, Paris, France
Subject: Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
Books of hours--France--Paris.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--New York (State)--New York.
Manuscripts, French--New York (State)--New York.
1230-1239.
Language: Latin, French
Date: c. 1230
Description: As with other depictions of the Visitation, Mary embraces her cousin Elizabeth. Mary pregnant with Jesus when to visit her cousin, Elizabeth while she was pregnant with John the Baptist. The Visitation came after the Annunciation.
Scene caption in French above, CI COM NOSTRE DAME ET SEI(N)TE YSABEL SE(N)TREUOIENT. From a book of hours for the use of Soissons; written and illuminated in Paris, France, in the 1230s.
Medium: Painting on vellum
Extent: Unknown.
Rights Holder: The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York
Provenance: Bought in Aug. 1895 by William Morris (1834-1896); Richard Bennett (1844-1900); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 74; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).