Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Book of Hours (Use of Paris)

Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25) · c. 1420

ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The owner of a book of hours was intended to stop eight times a day and read a devotional text.

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