A very unsual English 16th century book of hours in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
“The prymer in Englishe and Latine after Salisbury vse : set out at length wyth many prayers and goodlye pyctures.” (Imprinted at London : by the assygnes of Ihon Wayland, 1557) SL
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A very unsual English 16th century book of hours in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

“The prymer in Englishe and Latine after Salisbury vse : set out at length wyth many prayers and goodlye pyctures.” (Imprinted at London : by the assygnes of Ihon Wayland, 1557) SL

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1775 Different Editions of Printed Books of Hours Were Issued Between 1480 and 1600

1480 to 1600
Hore intemerate Virginis Marie secundu[m] vsum Romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam in Gallico[et] in Latino [Printed Book of Hours]. [Paris: G. Anabat, 1505.] Call Number: Summerfield C65 (University of Kansas).

Hore intemerate Virginis Marie secundu[m] vsum Romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam in Gallico
[et] in Latino 
[Printed Book of Hours]. [Paris: G. Anabat, 1505.] Call Number: Summerfield C65 (University of Kansas).

"When Books of Hours came to be printed, in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries, their pictures, made accessible to an even wider market, insured their meteoric success. (Between 1480 and 1600 there were some 1,775 different Horae editions printed.) This success was initially due in part to the cycles of small border vignettes with which the printers of Books of Hours were able to embellish their products. This was a selling point, and they knew it; printers often boasted about their pictures on their title pages. As the following selective list indicates, the cycles' range of subjects is quite extraordinary: lives of Christ and the Virgin, saints and evangelists, the Dance of Death, the trials of Job, children's games, heroines, sibyls, the Fifteen Signs of the Second Coming, the story of Joseph, the Seven Sacraments, the Seven Virtues, the Seven Vices, the Triumphs of Caesar, the story of Tobias, the Miracles of Our Lady, the story of Judith, the Destruction of Jerusalem, and, finally, the Apocalypse" (Wieck, Painted Prayers, The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art (1997).

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