Book of Hours
A Book of Hours from 1405, a devotional prayer book made for lay private use, produced by an unnamed workshop and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its four pictures are framed miniatures set in vellum margins with blue and gold borders, showing scenes from the Passion of Christ. A designer could take the framing system from them: a jewel-toned rectangle inside a patterned blue border, with small gold sprays and flowers scattered across the cream page edges.
