Cleveland Museum of Art

Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 109r, Mary Magdalene

Guillaume Le Rouge

Date

1510

Medium

112 printed folios on parchment, bound

Culture

France, Paris

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Printed books of hours were produced between 1485 and 1520. Significantly less expensive than handwritten production, printing made books of hours’ popularity soar. More than 1,775 different versions were printed during this time, allowing much customization. This hybrid version has printed text but hand-colored images and comes from Paris, a major center of book production. Open to the suffrages, indicated in red at the top, one page is devoted to Saint Anne and one to Mary Magdalene. Other versions of this book of hours have less color and attention to detail, indicating a higher price paid for this edition. A typical book of hours contains around a dozen suffrages, also known as memorials, from the Latin memoriae .

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