Paris Book of Hours

The Heueres a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir is a book of hours printed in the Parisian workshop of Gillet Hardouyn in 1510. Its 92 folios are beautifully adorned by full-page colored woodcuts and the text pages have beautifully historiated woodcut borders and colored initials. All the architectures, including the Tower of David, are designed in a similar fashion and take the form of two-towered buildings with red-brown facades and blue roofs. There is also a marginal depiction of the New Jerusalem that appears on three different pages depicting an angel standing at the gate of the City of God. The so-called Paris Book of Hours has been a prized part of the collections of the Hungarian Academy of Science Library since 1929.