Art Institute of Chicago

Book of Hours

Unrecorded artist

1375/99 (14th century binding; spine c. 1500)

Attribution

French (Paris) French binding, Italian spine

Medium

Manuscript, unfoliated, with 11 full-page miniatures and other decorations in colored inks and gold leaf, with littera textualis inscriptions in Latin and French, in black ink, ruled in red, on parchment, bound in brown calf over boards, and with black calf on spine with interlace design added

Physical dimensions

Images, average: 8.5 × 6 cm (3 3/8 × 2 3/8 in.); Sheets, average: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit line

Anonymous gift