The Book of Hours is the usual nature and severity of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. From each one Book of Hours is unique, however tons contain the collection of texts, prayers & psalms, along by having appropriate illustrations, to form the ready to h& information for Christian worship and devotion.

Inside its original form, a Book of Hours would listings the appropriate texts for both liturgical hour of the day. Yet, all over instance, more utile information were typically added, especially calendars of a religious & lay season along by using the prayers & people called upon for sure holy times.

When numerous Books of Hours come richly illuminated, it form an crucial record of life in the 15th and 16th centuries when well as a iconography of medieval Christianity.

Towards a prevent of the 15th century, various printed versions of the Book of Hours were produced, with woodcut illustrations.

One of a best known Books of Hours, & one of a virtually all richly illuminated mediaeval manuscripts, is the Très Riches Heures painted sometime between 1412 and 1416 in France for John, Duke of Berry.