Book of Hours
A Book of Hours made around 1460 in the Netherlands by the Master of Evert Zoudenbalch, a manuscript illuminator, for private devotional use by a lay patron. The pages are painted manuscript miniatures with gold leaf, decorated initials, and dense marginal foliage in bright blues, reds, and greens. A designer could borrow the interlaced border scrollwork, the gilded initial letters, and the saturated blue-and-gold colour pairings for ornamental pattern work.
