Wikipedia<\/a><\/i><\/p>\nLinda Porter writes that it was a gift from James IV of Scotland to his new queen, when they were married on 8th August 1503.<\/p>\n
\u2018Yet one most beautiful artefact does survive from all the splendour and pageantry of the occasion, though sadly it cannot be seen in Scotland. This the Book of Hours of James IV and Margaret Tudor<\/I>, a superbly decorated late medieval manuscript now held in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.<\/p>\n
We can be certain that this was a gift to Margaret when she became queen of Scotland…Margaret, in her picture, kneels before an altar, dressed in gold, with a blue velvet jacket and train. She looks, as indeed she was, very young. As with her husband, the likeness would appear to be consistent with the few other portraits we have of her.<\/p>\n
We cannot be sure of the emotional significance Margaret attached to her Book of Hours. At some point after she became a widow, she gave it to her sister, Princess Mary Tudor, who may, in turn, have passed it on to their niece, later Queen Mary I. By the mid-seventeenth century it had found its way into the hands of Leopold of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor. It remains in Vienna, the tangible and sumptuous witness of sixteenth-century Britain’s most important royal marriage.\u2019 (p.146-147, Porter).<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>![Wikipedia<\/a><\/i><\/p>\nLinda Porter writes that it was a gift from James IV of Scotland to his new queen, when they were married on 8th August 1503.<\/p>\n \u2018Yet one most beautiful artefact does survive from all the splendour and pageantry of the occasion, though sadly it cannot be seen in Scotland. This the Book of Hours of James IV and Margaret Tudor<\/I>, a superbly decorated late medieval manuscript now held in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.<\/p>\nWe can be certain that this was a gift to Margaret when she became queen of Scotland…Margaret, in her picture, kneels before an altar, dressed in gold, with a blue velvet jacket and train. She looks, as indeed she was, very young. As with her husband, the likeness would appear to be consistent with the few other portraits we have of her.<\/p>\nWe cannot be sure of the emotional significance Margaret attached to her Book of Hours. At some point after she became a widow, she gave it to her sister, Princess Mary Tudor, who may, in turn, have passed it on to their niece, later Queen Mary I. By the mid-seventeenth century it had found its way into the hands of Leopold of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor. It remains in Vienna, the tangible and sumptuous witness of sixteenth-century Britain’s most important royal marriage.\u2019 (p.146-147, Porter).<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve just finished reading the wonderful \u2018Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots\u2019 by Linda Porter and have started \u2018Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen\u2019 by Alison Weir. Both authors use the same picture of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[383],"tags":[66,491,492,54,212],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-items","tag-alison-weir","tag-crown-of-thistles-the-fatal-inheritance-of-mary-queen-of-scots","tag-elizabeth-of-york-the-first-tudor-queen","tag-linda-porter","tag-margaret-tudor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8273,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions\/8273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d9\/Margaret_Tudor_praying.jpg){kind=link}