Hours of Jean de Boucicaut

The Hours of Jean de Boucicaut is an illuminated book of hours produced around 1405-08 for Jean de Boucicaut. It contains the Paris liturgy of the Hours and founded a typical Parisian style of illumination that was continued by artists for the whole first half of the 15th century. It contains 44 miniatures by the Boucicaut Master and is now in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, ms. 2

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