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# The Black Books of Hours of the Late Fifteenth Century: the Pride of the Masters of Bruges
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/chernye-chasoslovy-kontsa-xv-veka-gordost-masterov-briugge/
- Published: 2024-09-07T07:18:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:32:45.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Art, Books, Monarchies

The Black Books of Hours of the late fifteenth century are the pride of the masters of Bruges. The principal patron of these masterpieces was the Burgundian court.

Only a handful of books executed in this technique have survived to our day.

To obtain the black pages, the parchment was dyed with a solution of iron and copper