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The Visconti Hours
Call Number: ND3363.V57 G72
ISBN: 0807606510
These illuminated volumes are dedicated to the representation of the naturalistic world and medicine. The Visconti Book of Hours is preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence.

Date of Original: 1390, completed after 1428
Location of Original: Milan, Italy
Facsimile Type: Full
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The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Call Number: ND3363.C3 P55 1966
ISBN: 0214666670
This book of hours was made around 1430 and contains detailed illustrations of everyday life in the 15th century. Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript belonging to the Guennol Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Date of Original: 1417-1476
Location of Original: Dutch
Facsimile Type: Full
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The Rohan Master: A Book of Hours
Call Number: ND3363.R6 R613
ISBN: 0807606901
Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript (Ms. latin 9471), Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Traditional title: Grandes Heures de Rohan. English catch title: Rohan Hours.
Date of Original: 15th Century
Location of Original: France
Facsimile Type: Full
The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux, Queen of France
Call Number: 096.1 P961h
ISBN: 0870990683
The book of hours of the wife of Charles the IV originates from the 14th century and was the first major French work to display delicate miniatures of the so-called demi-grisaille technique. Of the 209 folios comprising the original Book of Hours, forty-eight characteristic pages, including all the full-page pictures, are here illustrated.
Date of Original: 14th Century
Location of Original: France
Facsimile Type: Deluxe
The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke de Berry
Call Number: ND3363.B5 T713 1989
ISBN: 0807612200
Miniatures from MS. 65 in the Bibliotheque of the Musee Conde, Chantilly, by the brothers Jean, Herman, and Pol de Limbourg, under the direction of Pol ; the work was completed by Jean Colombe.
Date of Original: 1412-1416
Location of Original: France
Facsimile Type: Full
The Book of Hours of the Emperor Maximilian the First
Call Number: ND3363.M3 M39 1974
ISBN: 0913870013
In Latin, with marginal translations and notes in English. This edition consists of a reproduction of the 62 folios in the Staatsbibliothek, Munich, and the 57 folios preserved at the Bibliotheque Municipale, Besançon, with the lacking signatures substituted from the undecorated copy of the Prayer Book at the Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna.
Date of Original: 1513
Location of Original: Austria
Facsimile Type: Full
Prayer Book of Phillip II (Capitularia del siglo XVI de Felipe II)
Call Number: BX2080.A35 P55 1570a
ISBN: 8488829175
Facsimile of a 16th century manuscript commissioned by Philip II and now in the library of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo in El Escorial. Illuminations and decorations by Andrés de Léon and Julián de la Fuente el Saz.
Date of Original: 16th Century
Location of Original: Spain
Facsimile Type: True
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Book of hours of Doña Mencia De Mendoza (Officium Beate Marie uirginissecundum Romane curie)
Call Number: BX2080.A35 M46 2002
ISBN: 9788495767226
Full-color facsimile of the 16th Century Book of Hours of Doña Mencia De Mendoza, Marquee of Zanete, from the Biblioteca del Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan guarda.
Date of Original: 15th Century
Location of Original: Spain
Facsimile Type: True
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Medieval Facsimiles at the UNT Libraries: Books of Hours

Book of Hours Isabella of Castile (Libro de horas de Isabel la Católica)
Call Number: BX2080.A35 I83 1991
ISBN: 8486290325
A predominant feature of this work is the use of perspective, influenced by the Sienna school of the Trecento. Full-color facsimile of the 15th century manuscript, one of three or more books of hours associated with the name of Isabella I. In Latin.
Date of Original: 15th Century
Location of Original: Spain
Facsimile Type: True
The Grandes Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
Call Number: ND3363.B5 G713 c.2
ISBN: 0807696138
The Duke of Berry ordered this manuscript be painted by famous artists in 1407. Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript (ms. lat. 919) belonging to the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France.
Date of Original: 1340-1416
Location of Original: France
Facsimile Type: Full
Book of Hours, Huntington Manuscript HM 1173
Call Number: ND3363.H4 H45
ISBN: 0873281306
This pamphlet reproduces in color facsimile seventeen decorated leaves from the Huntington manuscript HM 1173, a Book of Hours made about 1460-1465.
Date of Original: 1460-1465
Location of Original: France
Facsimile Type: Full
The Hours of Henry VIII: A Renaissance Masterpiece by Jean Poyet
Call Number: ND3363.H57 W54 2000
ISBN: 0807614777
A product for the royal court of France containing daily devotionals and prayers with fifty-seven hand-painted images.
Date of Original: 15th-16th Century
Location of Original: France
Facsimile Type: Full
The Hours of Mary of Burgundy
Call Number: BX2080.A35 M3 1995
ISBN: 1872501877
Written in the 1470's, its pages hold the key works of the Master of Mary of Burgundy, the most famous Flemish illuminator of the 15th century.
Date of Original: 1470s
Location of Original: Flanders
Facsimile Type: Full
Farnese Book of Hours
Call Number: BX2080.A35 F27 2003
ISBN: 3201018007
The Farnese Hours, executed in Rome for Alessandro Cardinal Farnese (Pope Paul III), were decorated by the illuminator Giulio Clovio from 1537 to 1546. The scribe was Francesco Monterchi.
Date of Original: 1498-1578
Location of Original: Rome, Italy
Facsimile Type: Full
The Prayer Book of Michelino da Besozzo
Call Number: ND3380.M53 P7 1981
ISBN: 080761016X
This daily prayer book is illustrated with the illuminations of Michelino da Besozzo.
Date of Original: 1420
Location of Original: Italy
Facsimile Type: Full

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Facsimiles: Books of Hours

Books of Hours

A book of hours is a Christian devotional book that was popular in the later Middle Ages. Books of Hours contain prayers to be said at specific hours in honor of the Virgin Mary. Books of Hours are the most common type of surviving illuminated Medieval manuscript.

Medieval Facsimiles at the UNT Libraries: Books of Hours

Medieval Facsimiles at the UNT Libraries: Books of Hours

Facsimiles: Books of Hours

Books of Hours

A book of hours is a Christian devotional book that was popular in the later Middle Ages. Books of Hours contain prayers to be said at specific hours in honor of the Virgin Mary. Books of Hours are the most common type of surviving illuminated Medieval manuscript.

Medieval Facsimiles at the UNT Libraries: Books of Hours

Medieval Facsimiles at the UNT Libraries: Books of Hours

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