Book of Hours
A Book of Hours, a devotional prayer book for private use, produced around 1480 as a manuscript with painted pages; this example comes from the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. Its pictures are small framed miniatures of saints and scenes set within dense gold-leaf borders of vines, flowers, and small animals, with blocks of Latin text beside them, offering a designer models of medieval ornament, framing, and illuminated initials.
