Book of Hours, Original binding, Walters Manuscript W.194, Lower board outside

Brown calfskin over wooden boards (probably oak) with wide, shallow exterior chamfer and tongue corners; re-backed and re-edged at fore-corners in ca. 1900; sewn on 5 slit-tawed straps; covers tooled in blind, 4-filled double frame filled by intersecting 4-fillet lines that create lozenges and triangles with 5-point stars in each; endbands are of pink silk with an edge-bead around a cord (?) core and are contemporary with the re-backing; edges are undecorated; single catch-and-clasp fastening originally centered at the fore-edge, but holes have been patched This Flemish Book of Hours was produced between 1470 and 1480, possibly in Hainaut, by artists working in the style of French illuminator Simon Marmion, whose work has been recorded in northeastern France and Flanders between 1449 and 1489. The large number of feast days associated with Liège in the calendar further highlights the region of production. The book contains twelve full-page miniatures, of which five are rendered in color and seven in grisaille. The number of artists involved in the production of the full-page miniatures is disputed, ranging from two (see Legaré and Kren in the bibliography) to four (see Randall). Le