Fig. 24 shows a miniature from a French manuscript of this magnificent class, the _Treasure-Book_ of the Abbey of Origny in Picardy, executed about 1312 for the Abbess Héloise. It contains fifty-four large miniatures of scenes from the life and martyrdom of Saint Benedicta. The shaded part of the border is of the richest burnished gold, and the whole effect is magnificently decorative. The scene represented is the murder of the Saint, whose soul is being borne up to Heaven by two Angels, held in the usual conventional loop of drapery. _Horae of the Duc d'Anjou._ As an example of this class of illumination we may mention the famous _Book of Hours_ of the Duke of Anjou (Paris, _Bibl. Nat._) illuminated about the year 1380. Every page has a rich and delicate border covered with the ivy foliage[128], and enlivened by exquisitely painted birds, such as the goldfinch, the thrush, the linnet, the jay, the quail, the sparrow-hawk and many others; and at the top of the page, at the beginning of each division of the _Horae_, is a miniature picture of most perfect grace and beauty, the decorative value of which is enhanced by a background, either of gold diaper, or else of delicate scroll-work in light blue painted over a ground of deep ultramarine. Enormous prices were frequently paid by wealthy patrons for sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, especially in the fifteenth century for _Books of Hours_. [Illustration: Fig. 24. Scene of the martyrdom of Saint Benedicta from a _Martyrology_ of about 1312.] _Horae of the Duc de Berri._ The Paris library possesses (_Bibl. Nat._ Lat. 919) a very magnificent manuscript _Horae_, which was painted for the Duc de Berri at the beginning of the century by a French miniaturist named Jaquemart de Odin. At the Duke's death this _Book of Hours_ was valued at no less than four thousand livres Tournois, equal in modern value to quite two thousand pounds. It is mentioned thus in the inventory of the Duke's personal property, _item, unes tres belles heures tres richement enluminees et hystoriees de la main de Jaquemart de Odin...._ Like all books of this class, specially painted for a distinguished person, the arms and badges of the owner are introduced among the foliated ornaments of the borders of many pages; as the inventory states, _par les quarrefors des feuilles en plusieurs lieux faictes des armes et devises_[129]. Fig. 25 shows part of a page from this lovely book, with a miniature of the Birth of the Virgin, painted by Jacquemart de Odin, within a beautiful architectural framing of the finest style. Space will not allow any attempt to describe even in outline the many splendid classes of illuminated manuscripts which were produced by the French artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A few notable points only can be briefly mentioned. _Architectural framing._