This essay is devoted to the Clothilde Missal, a smallformat modern illuminated manuscript purchased in 2016 by The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (Ms. W.934), with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund. As described in a colophon accompanying her charming self-portrait on the final page, the Missal was written and illustrated in 1906 in Molsheim by Clothilde Coulaux, an accomplished female scribe and illuminator from Alsace, inspired by works of 15thand 16th-century painters such as Albrecht Dürer, Urs Graf, and Hans Holbein. All the pages are illuminated with a rich variety of imagery, mixing serious devotional images, scenes of everyday life, music, feasting, warfare, charming lords and ladies, and fairy-tale castles and villages, based on her first-hand knowledge of medieval buildings and towns in Alsace. Other images are more sobering, such as those of Habsburg eagles and Joan of Arc, and taken together with her choice to write in French while under German rule, they suggest an effort to define her national identity against overwhelming foreign influences.