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| − | '''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. | + | '''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.<ref>https://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/glossary.cfm#top</ref> |
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Revision as of 02:51, July 1, 2007
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.[1]