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Books of Hours were popular books of private devotion based on the monastic practice of saying prayers at set hours of the day (the Divine Office). Books of Hours were often lavishly illustrated, and so are important not only for the history of Medieval and Renaissance religious practices, but also for the history of art.

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• A Note on the Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves

  http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/3/woodruff.html
  A brief scholarly article by Peter Woodruff, with several color illustrations.

• Bodleian Library, MS. Broxbourne 89.8

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/broxb/89/008.htm
  Images of selected text pages in Dutch, Book of Hours (c. 1465-70).

• Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan e. 3

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/e/003.b.htm
  Images of the miniatures in Latin and French, Book of Hours for the Use of Rouen (c.1500) with a detailed description.

• Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan e. 3

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/e/003.a.htm
  Images of the calendar pages in Latin and French, Book of Hours for the Use of Rouen (c.1500).

• Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan f. 1

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/f/001a.htm
  Images of the miniatures and selected text pages, in Dutch, Book of Hours (after 1471) with a detailed description of the manuscript.

• Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan f. 3

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/f/003a.htm
  Images of the miniatures and selected text pages in Dutch, Book of Hours (15th century, second quarter).

• Bodleian Library, MS. Don. f. 33

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/don/f/033.htm
  Images of the miniatures, cover, and calendar page in Latin, Book of Hours for Use of Angers (c. 1470s).

• Bodleian Library, MS. Douce d. 19, fols. 41-62

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/douce/d/019.htm
  Images of leaves in Latin, Book of Hours (c. 1420-30).

• Glasgow University Library, Sp Coll MS Euing 4 (Glasgow Hours)

  http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/dec2003.html
  Images of full-page miniatures from a 15th-century French Book of Hours made in North-East France about 1460, with commentary.

• Morgan Library, MS H. 8 (The Hours of Henry VIII)

  http://www.themorgan.org/collection/hours-of-henry-viii/1?id=300
  Annotated images from a French Book of Hours made in Tours around 1500 and illuminated by Jean Poyer.

• Musée Condé, Chantilly, MS 65 (Très Riches Heures)

  http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/
  Images of the miniatures and illuminated text pages in the famous 15th-century Book of Hours painted for Jean, Duc de Berry. With extensive commentaries.

• National Library of Scotland, The Murthly Hours

  http://digital.nls.uk/murthlyhours/
  Detailed description of a late-thirteenth-century Book of Hours made in Paris for use by an English patron, with a complete digital facsimile of the manuscript. Illuminations by English artists.

• Oberlin College, Artz Hours

  http://littlepeople.net/artzhours/
  Complete digital facsimile of a 15th-century French Book of Hours for the Use of Le Mans.

• Royal Library, Copenhagen, GkS 1612 4º

  http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/64/eng/
  Digital facsimile of a richly illustrated 15th-century French Book of Hours. Illuminations by William Vrelant.

• Royal Library, Copenhagen, Thott 547 4º

  http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/76/eng/
  Digital facsimile of a 14th-century English Book of Hours made for Mary de Bohun.

• University of Kentucky, Kentuckiensis III

  http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/ukentucky/ky3/ky3.html
  Images of selected text pages from a modestly decorated 15th-century Italian Book of Hours.

• University of Kentucky, Kentuckiensis IX

  http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/ukentucky/ky9/ky9.html
  Images of miniatures and selected text pages from a French Book of Hours dating in part to the 14th century, and in part to the 15th.

• University of Kentucky, Kentuckiensis VII

  http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/ukentucky/ky7/ky7.html
  Images of miniatures and selected text pages from a 15th-century French Book of Hours attributed to the school of the Maître François.

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