Book of Hours
A devotional Book of Hours, probably made in the mid-fifteenth century by an unknown illuminator, likely for a lay owner who used it for private prayer; the Getty Museum holds it. Each page pairs a small framed miniature with a dense border of gold-leaf scrollwork, flowers, berries, birds and insects. The miniatures show saints, biblical scenes and kneeling donors in rich blue, red and gold, and a designer could borrow the layered decorative borders, jewel-like colour pairings and gold-highlighted floral motifs for ornamental work.
