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Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425)
Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French)
c. 1404
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Creating a book of hours was an arduous and costly process. These books were made from vellum, animal skins that were laboriously prepared in a multistep process. The texts were written with a quill pen and the illustrations were hand painted using water-based pigments. Gold was added for a look of great luxury. Such a book would take years to create, making these valuable objects unique.
