Book of Hours, Initial 'O' with blood streaming from a gash in a white heart at the center and from four round white wounds in the corners, This pocket-sized Book of Hours, ca. 1460-70, was completed in the circle of Willem Vrelant for the use of Sarum. Featuring twenty-seven extant miniatures and twenty-two historiated initials, it is an important example of the prayer books made in the third quarter of the thirteenth century in Bruges for English owners

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