book of hours
Americannoun
noun
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Reached at her Dallas home, she said a dealer asked if she wanted to hold a book of hours — an illuminated manuscript used to help laypeople pray — in her hands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Step inside the world’s most beautiful calendar, as Jason Farago, a critic for The Times, guides you through an invaluable 15th-century book of hours, in which science, religion and art coalesce.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
The star of its stunning exhibition of mostly 16th-century French material is a book of hours once owned by Francis I of France.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2011
Lazy, hazy days of summer-when the sun caressed the contours of a kitchen table, or of his basset hounds, or of his wife-provided Bonnard's book of hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several times he wished to speak, but she laid a finger on her lips, and covering her hands with her sleeves, sat on the bench beside him, reading her book of hours.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.
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