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English: This Flemish Book of Hours was produced between 1470 and 1480, possibly in Hainaut, by artists working in the style of French illuminator Simon Marmion, whose work has been recorded in northeastern France and Flanders between 1449 and 1489. The large number of feast days associated with Liège in the calendar further highlights the region of production. The book contains twelve full-page miniatures, of which five are rendered in color and seven in grisaille. The number of artists involved in the production of the full-page miniatures is disputed, ranging from two (see Legaré and Kren in the bibliography) to four (see Randall). Legaré and Kren attribute the color and grisaille miniatures to the Master of Antoine Rolin and the St. Anthony miniature on fol. 102v, the finest among all the illuminations, to a master follower of Simon Marmion. Randall identifies four artists, the first responsible for the Annunciation (fol. 22v), the finest among the five polychrome miniatures; the remaining four color miniatures were executed by a competent associate; a third artist produced the grisaille miniatures of the Infancy cycle; and a fourth, master artist created the color miniature of St. Anthony (fol. 102v), which was added later to the book, probably in the 1480s and possibly by Simon Marmion himself. The borders of the manuscript are undecorated, and the decoration of the initials in the text is routine. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.