Hours of Isabella Stuart
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The Hours of Isabella Stuart, Duchess of Brittany are an illuminated Book of Hours
produced at Angers
around 1417/18 in the workshop of the Rohan Master
. It was not written especially for its namesake, Isabella Stuart, but she was one of its earliest owners. It follows the Paris liturgy of the Hours, measures 24.8 by 17.8 cm and has 234 folios. It is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum
, Cambridge
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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 at Angers
Angers
Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....
around 1417/18 in the workshop of the Rohan Master
Rohan Master
The Rohan Master is the name given to an anonymous French book illuminator active in the first half of the 15th century, after his main work, the Rohan Hours. He also produced the Hours of Isabella Stuart....
. It was not written especially for its namesake, Isabella Stuart, but she was one of its earliest owners. It follows the Paris liturgy of the Hours, measures 24.8 by 17.8 cm and has 234 folios. It is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. Admission is free....
, Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
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