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Getijdenboek Van Reynegom (16e eeuw), KBS-FRB
Van Reynegom Book of Hours

A book of hours is a breviary containing prayers, Psalms, antitphons, and other materials to be recited at the canonical hours. These books were popular during the Middle Ages for common use among the nobility and the clergy. One of the most famous is the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry.

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  • Image of a Book of Hours

    An early 15th-century French book of hours (MS13, Society of Antiquaries of London) open to an illustration of the 'Adoration of the Magi'. Bequeathed to the Society in 1769 by the Revd Charles Lyttleton, Bishop of Carlisle and President of the Society (1765-8).

  • Archive-ugent-be-336BC5FA-15CD-11E9-954B-23312282636C DS-209 (cropped)

    Example of a more affordable en thus more common book of hours: Excerpt from a "simple" Middle Dutch book of hours. Made in the 2nd half of the fifteenth century in Brabant.

  • Schwarzes Stundenbuch edit

    Black Hours, Morgan MS 493, Pentecost, Folios 18v, c 1475–80. Morgan Library & Museum, New York

  • Simon Bening - Mai

    A full-page miniature of May, from a calendar cycle by Simon Bening, early 16th century.

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