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Learn about the history, function, and decoration of books of hours, popular devotional texts with paintings and prayers for the nonordained. Explore examples from the Met's collection and discover the stories behind them.
Books of hours (Latin: horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours. The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages, and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.
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Learn about the book of hours, a popular devotional book in the later Middle Ages that contained prayers to the Virgin Mary. See examples of lavishly decorated and illuminated books of hours, such as the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry.
Books of hours were among the most sought-after illuminated books of any kind in the later Middle Ages. Their contents were varied and flexible in the devotional texts they included and also...
Book of Hours. Flanders, probably Bruges. c. 1510-1520. MS 1058-1975. This volume showcases the final and most exuberant phase of manuscript illumination. It represents the highest point in the development of the Book of Hours, the quintessential text for private devotion and a cornerstone of the European book trade by c. 1500. Introduction.
Learn about the medieval best seller, a prayer book devoted to the Virgin Mary, with illuminated paintings and various sections. Discover the history, structure and significance of the Book of Hours in late medieval Christian culture.
