The Duc de Berry (seated, right), January in the calendar section of the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, tempera on vellum, Limbourg Brothers, c. 1415 CE The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most famous and possibly the best surviving example of French Gothic manuscript illumination, showing the late International Gothic phase of the style. It is a book of hours: a collection of prayers to be said at the canonical hours.

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