Book of Hours
This is a Book of Hours, a devotional manuscript made around 1460, probably in the Low Countries or France, for private lay use. Its pages show gilded initials with small painted scenes of religious figures, framed by dense borders of flowers, leaves, and birds in red, blue, and gold. A designer could take from them the layered logic of framed miniatures, decorated initials, and marginal ornament as a model for page composition.
