Black Hours, Hispanic Society, New York
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The Black Hours now in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America museum in New York City is a black book of hours made around 1458.
The calendar is appropriate for the Crown of Aragon, and it has been suggested that it was a bereavement gift to Maria of Castile, queen of Alfonso V of Aragon, who died in Valencia in 1458. The black vellum and the presence of Maria's coat of arms, no longer blazoned with that of Aragon, support this theory. The illuminator was Flemish, perhaps working in Spain at the time.[1]