# Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Netherlandish]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Manuscript \(M. 917 and 945\), 192 x 130 mm ## Commentary Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves 1434-40 Manuscript \(M. 917 and 945\), 192 x 130 mm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York The miniature on folio 168v in the section of the Office of the Dead. It shows the mouth of the Hell, a horrific combination of monster, cauldron and infernal city. In origin, this probably goes back to St John's apocalyptic visions and their imagery of the New Jerusalem. But by the 14th century such visual archetypes had become universal. ## Related artworks - [Bible]() - [Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves]() - [Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves]() - [Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves]() - [Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves]() - [Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves]() - [Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Breviary]() - [Breviary]() - [Breviary]() - [Breviary]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()