Poncher Hours
The Poncher Hours is a manuscript book of hours made around 1500, probably in Paris, for private devotional use by a lay patron. Its pictures are small framed miniatures set among dense borders of acanthus scrolls, flowers, berries and small animals, with gold ground and jewel-coloured paint. A designer could take the interlaced border system and the framed-scene-within-text layout as models for ornamented page frames.
