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The Books of Hours
The Books of Hours are books which contain prayers for the lay
people; they were developed from the breviaries that priests
used to have for their devotion.
The royalty and nobility used to order these books because not
only did they want to express their personal devotion when they
prayed everyday or read some texts from the Gospels included in
these books, but they also wanted to enjoy looking at the
magnificent miniatures which were lavishly decorated and
illuminated and made exclusively for them by the best artists of
that age.
More than 500 years afterwards, having in our hands a facsimile
reproduction of some of the most remarkable copies of this kind
of medieval codices which have come to us, we cannot avoid
feeling like the old kings and queens who spent high amounts of
money in order to be able to look at every detail of these
exquisite bound jewels for long hours.
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