Book of Hours
A Book of Hours, a devotional prayer book for private lay use, made around 1500 in the Netherlands by the illuminator Gerard Horenbout and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its pages show gold-leaf initials framing small scenes of the Virgin and saints, with Dutch and Latin prayer text set beneath, and borders of flowers, insects and snails in naturalistic colour a designer could draw on for botanical or ornamental motifs.
