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Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425)
Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French)c. 1404
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425)
- Creator: Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French)
- Date Created: c. 1404
- Physical Dimensions: Codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (1845-1934), Paris, France, Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (1881-1947), Paris, France, Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild (1926-1997), Paris, France, (Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
- Type: Bound Volume
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.40
- Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Fun Fact: King Charles the Noble likely used this book of hours at his royal castle of Olite in Navarra in northern Spain.
- Department: Medieval Art
- Culture: France, Paris
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
- Accession Number: 1964.40
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