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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rosenwald-BookOfHours/tn/000-front-cover-q90-318x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Some page images and details taken from a mediæval Latin Book of Hours in the Rosenwald collection at the Library of Congress in America. The manuscript was once believed to have been written and decorated by Geoffroy Tory.
The pages were scanned at the Library of Congress and are online there as Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10
There are 113 leaves in the manuscript, which is written on parchment approximately 24cm high (10 inches or so).
In some cases I have digitally enlarged the images so that you can use them in print projects; this makes the larger images be slightly fuzzy.
Title: Book of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10
Published by: The Roman Catholic Church
City: Touraine
Date: 1533
Total items: 18
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Ornate blue and gold full-page border]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rosenwald-BookOfHours/wm/big/118v-ornate-blue-and-gold-border-q75-116x200.jpg "[picture: Ornate blue and gold full-page border]")
Ornate blue and gold full-page border
A sumptuous and ornate medieval hand-drawn full-page frame or cartouch from this early sixteenth-century book of hours. Gem-encrusted golden vases and styilized leaves are on a solid blue [more...] [$]
![[picture: Letter ``S'' from 16th century book of hours]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rosenwald-BookOfHours/wm/big/023-initial-s-q95-301x200.jpg "[picture: Letter ``S'' from 16th century book of hours]")
Letter “S” from 16th century book of hours
The letter S painted in blue and gold used as a decorative initial. More precisely there’s gold leaf on a blue background. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Evangelist with lion]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rosenwald-BookOfHours/wm/big/017-evangelist-with-lion-q85-188x200.jpg "[picture: Evangelist with lion]")
A bearded man, perhaps in his thirties or forties, sits holding a book in his lap; to his left is a writing stand with an open manuscript; he holds a quill pen to his eye. There is a lion behind him, indicating that this is Mark, the supposed author of Mark’s Gospel. Mark the Apostle, of course, would [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Letter ``O'' from 16th century book of hours]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rosenwald-BookOfHours/wm/big/024-detail-initial-o-283x200.jpg "[picture: Letter ``O'' from 16th century book of hours]")
Letter “O” from 16th century book of hours
The letter O painted in blue and gold and used as a decorative initial or drop cap. This image was on image 24 of the library of Congress page images. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Miniature: Garden of Gethsemanu]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rosenwald-BookOfHours/wm/big/017-garden-of-gethsemane-q75-263x200.jpg "[picture: Miniature: Garden of Gethsemanu]")
Miniature: Garden of Gethsemanu
The disciples of Jesus sleep while Jesus prays, “let this cup be taken from me,” although since they were asleep no-one actually heard his prayer. The disciples are depicted as caucasian men with bare feet and halos, and the identity of the scene is confirmed by the small symbolic cup [...] [more...] [$]
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