New page: '''A Book of Hours''' was a prayer book for private devotions of lay people, modeled on the Divine Office. Books of Hours were extremely popular during the fifteenth century, and more exam...
'''A Book of Hours''' was a prayer book for private devotions of lay people, modeled on the Divine Office. Books of Hours were extremely popular during the fifteenth century, and more examples of them survive from the [[Middle Ages]] than of any other type of manuscript book.