This month’s cover features  detail from Folio 14v., a richly colored, full-page miniature of the Pentecost from the Book of Hours, use of Netherlands, c.1450 (Catholic Church). The miniatures are professionally painted with life-like, long-stretched figures partaking in different ceremonies, in this case the Pentecost. The festival of Pentecost Sunday, or Whitsunday, is still important to Christians today because it represents the beginning of the Christian Church. The name is derived from the Greek word pentekoste, which means 50th as Pentecost Sunday takes place on the 50th day of Easter. The image is part of the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries’ collection of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Rare Books. Learn more about the digitization of the collection on page 420. USC Digital Library, USC Special Collections, Z105.5 1450.C378. University of Southern California.