MANUSCRIPT - [ILLUMINATION]. Leaf from a book of hours - Full page illumination Meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment. France, Paris, ca. 1505-1515. Attributable to Jean Pichore or the Master of the Triumphs of Petrarch. Framed illumination. Sight size : 180 x 115 mm On the reverse of the miniature is the following text from the Hours of the Holy Spirit: "[...] me festina. Gloria patri. Antiphona. Veni sancte spiritus... [...] Hymnus. Nobis sancti spiritus gratia sit data...Oremus. Omnipotens sempiterne deus da nobis illam sancti spiritus...Qui tecum vivit et regnat ". It should be noted that Pichore is credited with the engraving models used to illustrate the printed books of hours of the first quarter of the 16th century. The Rencontre à la porte dorée is one of the engravings whose models are attributed to Jean Pichore (see, for example, the Hours printed by Gillet Hardouin, 18 March 1509, engraving reproduced in C. Zöhl, Jean Pichore. Buchmaler, Graphiker und Verleger in Paris um 1500, Turnhout, 2004, ill. 170). A composition very similar to the present miniature can be found in an old book of hours from the Astor collection, then described by the Galerie Les Enluminures (Paris), Rencontre à la porte dorée, fol. 74 (see Galerie Les Enluminures. Books of Hours. Catalog 9, no. 9 (2000); illumination reproduced in C. Zöhl, 2004, ill. 69), illustrating the Hours of the Conception of the Virgin. It can be assumed that the present miniature introduced a similar text into the present dismembered Hours. Jean Pichore was a painter, illuminator and printer who is known to have worked in Paris between 1502 and 1521. The Master of Petrarch's Triumphs, also active in Paris but also in Rouen in the years 1499-1514, was one of Jean Pichore's close collaborators. He owes his name to a manuscript of the Triumphs of Petrarch preserved under the symbol Paris, BnF, fr. 594).