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]