Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome) (1510): Art, History and Details

Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome) (1510) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Guillaume Le Rouge (French, Paris, active 1493–1517); Master of the Très Petites Heures of Anne of Brittany (French, Paris, active c.1480–1510).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Printed books of hours were produced between 1485 and 1520. Significantly less expensive than handwritten production, printing made the popularity of books of hours 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.

Object facts

• Title: Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
• Date: 1510
• Creator attribution: Guillaume Le Rouge (French, Paris, active 1493–1517); Master of the Très Petites Heures of Anne of Brittany (French, Paris, active c.1480–1510)
• Culture: France, Paris
• Type: Bound Volume
• Technique: 112 printed folios on parchment, bound
• Dimensions: Overall: 16.7 x 10.5 x 3 cm (6 9/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 2009.276

A detail from the museum

The workshop of Guillaume le Rouge was in the Neuve Notre-Dame near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Brunet, Jacques-Charles. Notice sur les Heures gothiques imprimées à Paris: à la fin du quinzième siècle et dans une partie du seizième, par J.-C. Brunet. VI Paris: Impr. Firmin Didot frères, 1864.
• MONCEAUX, Henri. Les Le Rouge De Chablis II 1470-1531. [A List of Works Published by Members of the Family with Short Biographical Notices.]. 1895.
• Lacombe, Paul. Livres d'heures imprimés su XVe et au XVe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèque publiques de Paris: catalogue. Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1963.

View the collection record

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