Title
[Book of Hours; Use of Rome].
Coverage
Ghent,
Date
ca. 1470.
Subject
Gift of Hans and Eva-Maria Tausig.
Description
Books continued to be made in manuscript after the advent of printing in the West. This late medieval Book of Hours is a Roman Catholic devotional book centered on the Hours of the Virgin. It is written in a Gothic bookhand, also known as textualis or textura, and it contains six large initials on burnished gold facing six full- page miniature paintings made by Willem Vrelant (d. 1481) or by an assistant or collaborator in his circle.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School