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	Book of Hours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Book of Hours is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.
		As many Books of Hours are richly illuminated, they form an important record of life in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the iconography of medieval Christianity.
		One of the most famous Books of Hours, and one of the most richly illuminated medieval manuscripts, is the Très Riches Heures painted sometime between 1412 and 1416 in France for John, Duke of Berry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Book_of_Hours (241 words)

	AllRefer.com - book of hours (Art, General) - Encyclopedia
		book of hours, form of prayer book developed in the 14th cent.
		The book of hours served as a devotional work containing various prayers and meditations appropriate to seasons, months, days of the week, and hours of the day.
		Many such books are masterpieces of illumination and were symbols of refinement and wealth in fashionable houses of the 15th cent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/bookhour.html (248 words)

	Penn Special Collections-Schoenberg Exhibit Book of Hours
		By the early fifteenth century, the format of the Book of Hours had developed to satisfy the demands of private, as opposed to communal, devotion.
		Although the liturgy of this Book of Hours is of English use, and calendar notations and a lengthy added rubric in Middle English speak to its English provenance, it seems likely that the manuscript was used by an outcast community of English Catholics on the Continent, not in England, after the Reformation.
		As was common in this period, the illuminations in this Book of Hours were produced in a different workshop from the rest of the manuscript, purchased individually and sewn into the manuscript when it was bound.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/schoenberg/schoenberg_bohtext.html (1401 words)

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		The eight "hours" of prayer are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, vespers and compline.
		Books of Hours typically begin with a calendar of major liturgical feasts and important saints' days, sometimes with special regional saints or saints of personal interest to the patron of the book.
		The saints in the Frick Book of Hours are universally venerated.
	vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu /UPitthoursms (1124 words)

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		A Book of Hours is basically a structured book of prayers.
		The opening pages of most Books of Hours are a quite literal demonstration of the role of the religious year in daily life.
		Books of Hours usually start with a calendar, listing the feast days to be observed by their owner.
	www.kb.nl /kb/manuscripts/introduction/introduction5.html (417 words)

	Leaves of Gold Gallery - Introduction, Books of Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The heart of every Book of Hours was a set of prayers called the Hours of the Virgin, which sought the Virgin's assistance and intercession.
		These treasured books were given as gifts on special occasions, such as weddings, and they often appeared in medieval wills, testifying to their value and importance.
		A Book of Hours was often the first and only book an individual owned in his or her lifetime.
	www.leavesofgold.org /gallery/boh (269 words)

	Book of Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Printed books of hours were beginning to be produced at about the time that this book was composed, but this is a manuscript book.
		These books were not made of paper; each page is made from a type of scraped calfskin, called vellum, and is much stronger and longer-lasting than ordinary paper.
		To meet the popular demand for books like this, around the time that this book was produced, printed books of hours were starting to appear.
	pweb.cc.sophia.ac.jp /~j-yamamo/Hours (472 words)

	Sister Wendy's American Collection \| Selected Works \| The Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic
		A personal, portable devotional book, a Book of Hours was used in the Middle Ages for daily prayer and psalm recitation.
		One of the grandest examples of the prayer book is Queen Isabella's Book of Hours.
		Isabella the Catholic, sponsor of Christopher Columbus's explorations and reigning monarch during the height of the Spanish Inquisition, received this book of hours from a subject at the end of the 1490s.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/sisterwendy/works/hou.html (352 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Book of Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Book of Hours: Prayers to the Goddess includes morning, evening, and nightly prayers; seasonal prayers for the Wiccan holy days; and prayers for the new and full moons.
		Book of Hours may be used in Wiccan Circles, study groups, or by anyone who desires to express their devotion to the Goddess.
		In the introductory chapter, Gillotte adequately describes the four types of prayer she emphasizes in the book, prayers of expectation, prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of celebration and prayers of contemplation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1567182739?v=glance (2297 words)

	Book of Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Book of Hours, the prayer book of laity, usually contains 16 sections.
		The section on prayers to the Virgin is the most important and most used, and its manuscripts exceed in number all other 15th century religious texts.
		The laymen who ordered and purchased these books would at times stipulate the style of ornament and the amount of burnished gold to be used, and could even, to a certain extent, select the saints they esteemed most and wished to glorify.
	wally.rit.edu /cary/cc_db/manuscripts/book_of_hours46.html (128 words)

	Royal Library- Copenhagen - Thott 547 4º - Manuscripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This book is counted among a group of illuminated manuscripts that were produced specially for Mary de Bohun, who married the man who later became Henry IV.
		Filippa may have brought the book with her to Denmark.
		The book's illuminations include illustrations of a number of legends.
	www.kb.dk /elib/mss/mdr/th547/index-en.htm (69 words)

	Wellesley College Library - Books of Hours Homepage
		Whether modest or ornate, every Book of Hours is unique, and each one provides a significant resource for studying the history of religious thought and art.
		During the late Middle Ages, the Book of Hours developed as a popular devotional text for the laity, who would recite the particular prayer for the hour of the day and time of year according to the ecclesiastical calendar.
		The five Books of Hours in Special Collections were all the gifts of generous alumnae and friends.
	www.wellesley.edu /Library/SpecColl/BookOfHours/bookhome.html (410 words)

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		Shelf number: ND3363.P23B5 Book of Hours in Latin and French, Calendar in French, use of Paris; Hours of the Virgin and Hours of the Dead, use of Paris.
		However, the compositions and artistic conventions used by all three of the painters closely parallel work in the Books of Hours attributed to the workshop.
		Czastoryskich MS 2422; the Hours of Dom Louis de Busco of 1489, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery W286; three major manuscripts attributed to Maître François: London, B.L. Egerton 2045; the Wharncliffe Hours Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria MS Felton 1072/3, and a Book of Hours in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
	vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu /UPitthoursms/description.html (486 words)

	Book of Hours -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Book of Hours -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		A Book of Hours is the most common type of surviving (Click link for more info and facts about medieval) medieval (Click link for more info and facts about illuminated manuscript) illuminated manuscript.
		Towards the end of the (Click link for more info and facts about 15th century) 15th century various printed version of the Book of Hours were produced, with (Engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints) woodcut illustrations.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Book of Hours: Illuminations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This book contains all 17 miniatures from a book of hours illustrated by Simon Marmion.
		I would recommend this book for anyone who wants an inexpensive example of a beatiful books of hours.
		I have read this book many times and I enjoy the way that the author has portrayed all of the aspect of all that is good and all that is not.
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	LES TRES RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY
		The Tres Riches Heures is _the_ classic example of a medieval book of hours.
		This was a collection of the text for each liturgical hour of the day - hence the name - which often included other, supplementary, texts.
		He owned astronomical treatises, mappa mondes, and a large number of religious books: 14 Bibles, 16 psalters, 18 breviaries, 6 missals and no less than 15 Books of Hours, including of course the Tres Riches Heures.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /images/heures/heures.html (1083 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Hypertext book of hours
		'Hypertext Book of Hours' gives you an introduction on the history and context of the Book of Hours and lists its usual structure, based on the 1599 'Primer, or Office of the Blessed Virgin Marie, in Latin and English'.
		This resource provides all calendar dates, Gospel readings, Psalms, prayers and suffrages normally found in a (sixteenth-century) Book of Hours in Latin and English.
		However, it underplays the relationship between the text and the often highly refined and detailed illumanations of most Books of Hours.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=2748 (161 words)

	Book of Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I have always been obsessed by needlework, passionate about books, and highly interested in medieval art and history, especially illuminated manuscripts.
		Over a six month period, I spent well over 400 hours at the computer fixing the pattern stitch by stitch, trying to make it look as much like the original as possible.
		My long-suffering husband was not surprised when we bought furniture for the room where "The Insanity" would live, that the blue of the couch matched the darkest blue of the sky and the throw pillows and rocking chair are a deep gold with blue flowers.
	www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk /gallery/bkhours.htm (490 words)

	Black 15th C. Book of Hours
		They are penitential horae in so far as the visual cycle of the hours and the Virgin has instead of events in The Virgin's life, stations of the Passion of Christ.
		The emphasis on suffering in this cycle and the strong identification of the reader with Christ Himself was a feature of Northern European religious art of the late 15th Century.
		The regular edition of this book is a version where the leaves are matted and placed in a portfolio.
	www.dndgalleries.com /bofh2.html (345 words)

	Book of Hours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In assigning this leaf from a Book of Hours to the Netherlands it must be remembered that some sections of that country were once part of France, while others belonged to what is now Germany.
		In this leaf French characteristics predominate, but in no other country did the study of nature have a more direct influence on miniatures and ornamentations that in the Netherlands.
		A few decades later, at the turn of the century, cast shadows as well as snails, butterflies, and birds were added, with the result that the borders became a distraction to the reader.
	wally.rit.edu /cary/cc_db/manuscripts/book_of_hours47.html (120 words)

	Queer Book of Hours \| www.mccsf.org/bookofhours
		This QUEER BOOK OF HOURS is divided into sections by days of the week, with prayers for Morning, Midday and Evening.
		We are grounded in the Christian tradition, exploring and affirming many paths to God.
		Books of Hours were the most popular books of the Middle Ages and were used by people in their personal devotions at a time when church authorities kept most people as mere spectators in community rituals.
	www.mccsf.org /bookofhours (241 words)

	Book of Hours (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In a workshop closely associated with the count, the anonymous artists known as the Masters of Dirc van Delf illuminated this book of hours, perhaps for a member of Albrecht's family or one of his courtiers.
		While the Hours of the Virgin were most often illustrated with miniatures showing the Life of the Virgin, this book illustrates these services with scenes from the Passion of Christ.
		With their powerful dramatic style, the eight full-page miniatures provide visual meditations on the meaning of the story of Jesus, fostering the viewer's empathy for his supreme sacrifice.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/objects/o1783.html (179 words)

	Book of Hours (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Master of Guillebert de Mets, illuminator; Master of the Lee Hours, illuminator
		This profusely illuminated Flemish book of hours offers an unusual reversal of what is expected.
		While borders are customarily visually subordinate to miniatures, the lush foliage in the borders of this manuscript's most outstanding pages captures the reader's attention and gives unity to the double-page spreads.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/objects/o1718.html (169 words)

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	Book Of Hours
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		form of prayer book developed in the 14th cent.
		Jean, duc de Berry, was among the most renowned collectors of books of hours, and his Très Riches Heures (Musée Condé, Chantilly), illustrated in part by the Limbourg brothers (c.1415), is among the greatest achievements in this genre.
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