[Ezekiel]

15th-century Book of Hours is expected to fetch as much as $2.5 million when it goes to auction this April.

Wow, if that's what hours are expected to fetch, how much for the "Book of Days"?

According to the Medievalists.net, the highlight of the auction will be the Book of Hours, created around the year 1440...

Now just hold on a minute..

[dangus]

You know this, but for others: the Book of Hours consisted of scripture readings, including Psalms and Canticles, to be read at various hours through the day and night.

A Canticle is a song or prayerful monolog from the bible. Major canticles include the praises from the Blessed Virgin Mary (”My soul magnifies the Lord, and my Spirit rejoices in God my Savior...”), from Zecharias (”Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people and set them free...), of Simeon (”Lord, now let your servant depart in peace...). There are many Old Testament Canticles, too, such as those of Moses (”...horse and rider, He has thrown into the Sea”).

Nearly the entire Book of the Hours is from scripture, and nearly the entire gospel is contained within, but there are significant portions that Protestants do not recognize as scripture, such as Canticles of Tobit, Judith, and an extended version of the Canticle of the Three Youths Saved from the Furnace from the Book of Daniel.

[LibWhacker]

Leftists would love to get their hands on this book, just to burn it. They’d never buy it, of course, and THEN destroy it. But if you owned it, watch out. They’d destroy it and then laugh in your face. They’re just like muslims... Don’t like something? Burn it, behead it, annihilate it.

[SteveH]

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[sauropod]

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[Jane Long]

Reminds me, in a way, of the The Book of Kells, at Trinity College, Dublin.

What is the Book of Kells?

The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin MS 58) contains the four Gospels in Latin based on the Vulgate text which St Jerome completed in 384AD, intermixed with readings from the earlier Old Latin translation. The Gospel texts are prefaced by other texts, including “canon tables”, or concordances of Gospel passages common to two or more of the evangelists; summaries of the gospel narratives (Breves causae); and prefaces characterizing the evangelists (Argumenta).

The book is written on vellum (prepared calfskin) in a bold and expert version of the script known as “insular majuscule”. It contains 340 folios, now measuring approximately 330 x 255 mm; they were severely trimmed, and their edges gilded, in the course of rebinding in the 19th century.

https://www.tcd.ie/library/manuscripts/book-of-kells.php

[Hebrews 11:6]

You’ve been bidding up the price, haven’t you?

[Slyfox]

I was doing research at the University of Texas at Austin's rare book collection I was able to have in my hands a Book of Hours, although it was not as beautifully decorated.

Some tend to think that the Church did not allow people to read the Bible, and that is not true. Before Gutenberg and the printing press, most books had to be hand written therefore they were very expensive.

Less expensive books could be bought which had only parts of the Bible. The Church even provided for blessings if people would read to others who could not read.

[KingLudd]

Book of hours in the Library of Congress:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2003rosen0014/?st=gallery

Library of Congress also holds a “perfect” Gutenberg Bible on velum (no missing pages, tears, stains, etc.)

[Rebelbase]

" I'll give you fifty bucks".

[Fresh Wind]

Too bad it’s not Book of Ours, or better yet, Book of Mine!