What are the Taymouth hours?
The Taymouth Hours (Yates Thompson MS 13) is an illuminated Book of Hours produced in England in about 1325~35. It is named after Taymouth Castle where it was kept after being acquired by an Earl of Breadalbane in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. The Taymouth Hours is now held by the British Library Department of Manuscripts in the Yates Thompson collection. Most pages have a bas-de-page illustration, often accompanied by a caption in Anglo-Norman French or Latin.The Taymouth Hours is one of two English books of hours made between 1240 and 1350 with links to royal patronage; thus it exemplifies a higher level of craftsmanship compared to other books of hours assumed to have been owned by affluent, secular individuals.