# Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425)

- By: Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.40)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1964.40/1964.40_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.