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The Golf Book

The pictures in this topic are taken from the calendar pages of a Flemish Book of Hours, written and illuminated (that means illustrated) in the first quarter of the 16th century.

This book is nicknamed 'The Golf Book' because this picture from the book shows a game like the modern game of golf.

Image from 'The Golf Book'
Images like these are valuable to the historian. They provide a great deal of information about what people did on a day-to-day basis. Although the pictures in 'The Golf Book' are from Flanders (in modern day Belgium) life in Britain in the16th century was not very different and the pictures show the same sort of activities. These pictures are particularly useful as they provide information about work and leisure, and about the wealthy and ordinary people.

 
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