Hours of Jean de Boucicaut

The Annunciation, in the book

The Hours of Jean de Boucicaut is an illuminated book of Hours produced around 1405-08 for Jean de 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, Paris, ms. 2

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