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	Musée Condé, Chantilly, MS 65 (Très Riches Heures) - http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/ Images of the miniatures and illuminated text pages in the famous 15th-century Book of Hours painted for Jean, Duc de Berry. With extensive commentaries.
	Musée Condé, Chantilly, MS 65 (Très Riches Heures), Calendar Miniatures - http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/heures.html Images from the calendar section of the "Très Riches Heures," painted by the Limbourg brothers for Jean, Duc de Berry, in the early 15th century.
	National Library of Scotland, The Murthly Hours - http://www.nls.uk/murthlyhours/ Detailed description of a late-thirteenth-century Book of Hours made in Paris for use by an English patron, with a complete digital facsimile of the manuscript. Illuminations by English artists.
	National Library of Australia, Clifford Collection MS 1097/9 - http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/treasures/may_treasure.html Brief introduction to a 15th-century Flemish Book of Hours, with images of the pages containing full-page miniatures.
	Bodleian Library, MS. Douce d. 19, fols. 41-62 - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/douce/d/019.htm Images of leaves in Latin, Book of Hours (c. 1420-30).

	Bodleian Library, MS. Broxbourne 89.8 - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/broxb/89/008.htm Images of selected text pages in Dutch, Book of Hours (c. 1465-70).
	Bodleian Library, MS. Don. f. 33 - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/don/f/033.htm Images of the miniatures, cover, and calendar page in Latin, Book of Hours for Use of Angers (c. 1470s).
	Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan e. 3 - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/e/003.a.htm Images of the calendar pages in Latin and French, Book of Hours for the Use of Rouen (c.1500).
	Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, MS 54.1.2 (Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux) - http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/jde/jdesplash.htm On-line exhibition of the famous Book of Hours in French made for the Queen of France, illuminations by Jean Pucelle (between 1324 and 1328).
	Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan f. 3 - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/f/003a.htm Images of the miniatures and selected text pages in Dutch, Book of Hours (15th century, second quarter).

	Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan f. 1 - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/f/001a.htm Images of the miniatures and selected text pages, in Dutch, Book of Hours (after 1471) with a detailed description of the manuscript.
	Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan e. 3 - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/buchanan/e/003.b.htm Images of the miniatures in Latin and French, Book of Hours for the Use of Rouen (c.1500) with a detailed description.
	University of Kentucky, Kentuckiensis III - http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/ukentucky/ky3/ky3.html Images of selected text pages from a modestly decorated 15th-century Italian Book of Hours.
	University of Kentucky, Kentuckiensis IX - http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/ukentucky/ky9/ky9.html Images of miniatures and selected text pages from a French Book of Hours dating in part to the 14th century, and in part to the 15th.
	Brandeis Libraries, Book of Hours - http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/archives-speccoll/events/bookofhours/ Digital facsimile of a 15th-century French Book of Hours for the Use of Rennes.

	Morgan Library, MS H. 8 (The Hours of Henry VIII) - http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=300 Annotated images from a French Book of Hours made in Tours around 1500 and illuminated by Jean Poyer.
	Oberlin College, Artz Hours - http://littlepeople.net/artzhours/ Complete digital facsimile of a 15th-century French Book of Hours for the Use of Le Mans.
	A Note on the Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves - http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/3/woodruff.html A brief scholarly article by Peter Woodruff, with several color illustrations.
	Glasgow University Library, Sp Coll MS Euing 4 (Glasgow Hours) - http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/dec2003.html Images of full-page miniatures from a 15th-century French Book of Hours made in North-East France about 1460, with commentary.
	Royal Library, Copenhagen, Thott 547 4º - http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/76/eng/ Digital facsimile of a 14th-century English Book of Hours made for Mary de Bohun.

	Royal Library, Copenhagen, GkS 1610 4° (Della Porta Hours) - http://www.chd.dk/gui/gks1610_guideII.html Detailed guide to a late-15th-century French Book of Hours produced in Tours and Bourges, with links to images from the digital facsimile.
	Brandeis Hours - http://www.chd.dk/gui/Brandeis_gui.html Detailed guide, transcript, and links to the digital facsimile of a 15th-century French Book of Hours for the Use of Rennes.
	Rouen Hours - http://www.chd.dk/gui/bofh1_gui.html Detailed description, transcript, and links to a complete digital facsimile of a 15th-century French Book of Hours for the Use of Rouen.
	British Library, Add. MS 34294 (Sforza Hours) - http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/sforza/sforza_broadband.htm Partial digital facsimile of the "Sforza Hours," a late-15th-century Italian book of hours illuminated by Giovan Pietro Birago and Gerard Horenbout.
	Syracuse University Library, MS 2 (Le Louchier Hours) - http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/collections/m/MedievalManuscripts/ms02/ms02.htm Images of a 15th-century Flemish Book of Hours for the Use of Rome, with images of selected pages.

	Syracuse University Library, MS 5 - http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/collections/m/MedievalManuscripts/ms05/ms05.htm Images of a manuscript originating from Florence, Italy with a dating to the last quarter of the 14th century.
	Time and the Flower: Significant Images of the Passage of Time in the Floral Borders of the Hours of Catherine of Cleves - http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol6/schaeffe.html Scholarly essay on the meaning of the floral borders in a 15th-century Netherlandish Book of Hours, by Elizabeth R. Schaeffer.
	British Library, Add. MS 24098 (Golf Book) - http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/golf/golf_broadband.htm Partial digital facsimile of the so-called "Golf Book," a 16th-century book of hours produced in Bruges. Illuminations by Simon Bening.
	Syracuse University Library, MS 6 - http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/collections/m/MedievalManuscripts/ms06/ms06.htm Brief description of a late-15th-century French Book of Hours, with images of selected pages.
	University of Kentucky, Kentuckiensis VII - http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/ukentucky/ky7/ky7.html Images of miniatures and selected text pages from a 15th-century French Book of Hours attributed to the school of the Maître François.

	Royal Library, Copenhagen, GkS 1612 4º - http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/64/eng/ Digital facsimile of a richly illustrated 15th-century French Book of Hours. Illuminations by William Vrelant.
	Spalding University, Book of Hours - http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/spalding/spalding.html Images of illuminated manuscript in Latin and Italian Book of Hours for the Daughter of Francis I (1559).

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