MINIATURIST, Flemish
(active c. 1460 in Bruges)

Book of Hours

c. 1460
Manuscript (Ms. Ludwig IX.8)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

This Book of Hours was written and illuminated in Bruges about 1460 for intended sale to an English client. Its Calendar and Litany include English saints. The miniature on folio 106r, shown here, depicts King Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents.