[ENLUMINURE]. Leaf from a book of hours Hours of the Virgin, third Announcement to the shepherds In Latin, leaf from an illuminated manuscript on parchment. France, Lyon, circa 1500-1510. Large miniature attributable to the Entry Master, active in Lyon from circa 1493 to 1517. Miniature and text surrounded by a compartmented border with colored acanthus leaves, floral motifs and bird; initial painted in blue with white highlights on a red and gold background, with flowers (4 lines high); bastard script in dark brown ink; parchment ruled in red ink; rubrics in red and blue. Dimensions: 213 x 140 mm Recto: text with end of premium of the Hours of the Virgin (14 lines of text); rubric announcing tierce of the Hours of the Virgin; ornate line ends. Verso: miniature (Announcement to the shepherds) with beginning of text for tierce des Heures de la Vierge (4 lines of text). The Maître des Entrées (or Maître de l'Entrée de François Ier à Lyon; in English, "Entry Master") was an artist active in Lyon from circa 1493 to 1517. The artist is named after the copy of the description of the royal entry in 1515 in Lyon (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Extr. 86.4; Burin, 2001, cat. 94). Hypothetically identified by E. Burin with Jean Pingault, a writer and illuminator commissioned to paint the decorations for François I's entry into Lyon, he is credited with numerous manuscripts, including a Lectionary and Benedictionary for the collegiate church of Saint-Nizier in Lyon (Lyon, BM, MS 5136; Burin, 2001, cat. 74) and this charter for the priory of Saint-Albin, featuring a large illumination in a compartmentalized frame (Paris, ENSBA, Masson 135). He painted several books of hours, for example Lyon, BM, MS 577 (with an Annunciation to the shepherds, fol. 56); Paris, BnF, latin 1404 or latin 9475. Several manuscripts attributed to the Maître des Entrées feature similar compartmentalized borders, and note the particular treatment of grass and vegetation, as well as the radiant cloud in the sky, similar examples of which can be found in the work of this artist (e.g. Missel (London, Museum of the Order of Saint John), Burin, 2001, cat. 70). See also Burin, E. Manuscript Illumination in Lyons, 1473-1530, Turnhout, 2001, especially the chapter "Entry Master", pp. 31-33; Hermant, M., "Production et commande de manuscrits enluminés à Lyon à la fin du Moyen Age et à la Renaissance", in L. Virassamynaïken (ed.). Lyon Renaissance: arts et humanisme, Paris and Lyon, 2015, pp. 274-279.