# Breviary of Isabella of Castile [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Flemish]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Additional MS 18851\) ## Commentary Breviary of Isabella of Castile c. 1497 Manuscript \(Additional MS 18851\) British Library, London The Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castile, the patroness of Christopher Columbus, was probably commissioned by Francisco de Rojas, a diplomat in her service, in about 1497. It was illuminated in Bruges and may have been intended for use in one of the royal chapels. The miniature on folio 348r, shown here, illustrates the office of St Thomas Aquinas and shows the saint in church with the crucifix which miraculously spoke to him. ## Related artworks - [Apocalypse]() - [Boccaccio: Des cas des ruynes des nobles hommes et femmes]() - [Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae]() - [Book of Hours \(La Flora\)]() - [Book of Hours \(La Flora\)]() - [Book of Hours of Isabella of Castile]() - [Book of Hours of Isabella of Castile]() - [Book of Hours of Marie of Gueldern]() - [Book of Hours of Marie of Gueldern]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Book of Hours]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()