The Rothschild Prayerbook or Rothschild Hours (both are titles also used for other books), is an important Flemish illuminated manuscript book of hours, illuminated over the period c. 1500-20 by a number of artists. It has 254 folios, with a page size of 228 x 160 mm. It is now in a private collection, but was once in the Austrian National Library in Vienna as Codex Vindobonensis S.N. 2844. Since its sale in 1999 it has held the world record price at auction for an illuminated manuscript, as of 2009.
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