Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)

Master of Jacques de Luxembourg (French) · c. 1465

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 the appropriate devotional text.

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