Book of Hours
A Book of Hours, an illuminated prayer book made around 1400 with an unknown artist and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, written for private devotion by lay readers. Each leaf has a small framed miniature of a scene from the life of the Virgin or Christ, set within gold and gilded initials, Latin text blocks and vine-scroll borders with blue and gold flowers, a model for framing text and image on a page.
