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Book of Hours for Sarum Use and Gallican Psalter with Canticles (Pembroke Hours)

c. 1465-1470, with additions c. 1550-1565
Artist/maker unknown, Netherlandish
This book is called "The Pembroke Hours" after the first Earl of Pembroke, who commissioned it. Books of Hours contain prayers associated with daily use. This one is unusual in also including the psalms.

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