Book of Hours
A Book of Hours, a devotional prayer book made around 1450 and likely for a lay patron, probably in a Flemish or Franco-Flemish workshop, with its manuscript now held by a Swiss library. The pages mix hand-lettered red and black Latin text with gilded borders and small framed scenes. The illuminations show a praying figure, a sower in a field, a man gathering stones, and a scene of saints gathered beneath a gold sky, with blue and red flourishes and vine-like border scrolls a designer could borrow for decorative framing, calendar layouts, or medieval-style lettering.
