Hours of Jean de Boucicaut
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Book of Hours
The book of hours was a devotional book popular in the later Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and...
produced around 1405-08 for Jean de Boucicaut
Jean Le Maingre
Jean II Le Maingre , called Boucicaut was marshal of France and a knight renowned for his military skill.He was the son of marshal Jean I Le Maingre, also called 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 and is now in the Musée Jacquemart-André
Musée Jacquemart-André
The Musée Jacquemart-André is a public museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart to display the art they collected during their lives.-History:Edouard André, the scion of a...
, Paris, ms. 2