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This book is more commonly known as 'The Visconti Hours', and is called such in pretty much every book and paper I've ever seen on the topic. In fact, I've never seen it called 'Hours of Gian...'. I'm going to update this page to reflect that.

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	This book is more commonly known as 'The Visconti Hours', and is called such in pretty much every book and paper I've ever seen on the topic. ~~The~~ ~~Visconti Hours~~, ~~National~~ ~~Library,~~ ~~Florence~~ ~~Millard~~ ~~Meiss and Edith W. Kirsh, Brazillier, Inc., 978-0807606513 says that the Visconti~~ Hours ~~is a classic example~~ of ~~the personal prayer books of the period, which were generally made for wealthy lay persons~~. It is ~~composed~~ of ~~iron~~ ~~gall~~ ~~inks,~~ various pigments and materials, including the expensive and rare lapis lazuli blue, mixed with egg yolk or gum arabic, and three kinds of gold, including gold emulsion and burnished gold leaf, on animal vellum. The text is a Gothic miniscule font that ~~is also known as blackletter calligraphy~~.		This book is more commonly known as 'The Visconti Hours', and is called such in pretty much every book and paper I've ever seen on the topic. In fact, I've never seen it called 'Hours of Gian...'. I'm going to update this page to reflect that.