Book of Hours

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Book of Hours, 15th century France

The Book of Hours was a daily guide to devotion. By the mid-15th century these books had become commercially produced items whose sale was directed to the carriage trade. They were not typical manuscript books, and would have furnished printers a model impossible to emulate.

Digital full versions of this beautifully crafted 15th-century illuminated manuscript and other medieval manuscripts are available at Lehigh University Libraries' Digital Library of Illuminated Manuscript Project:

 

http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/manuscripts/