# Rothschild Book of Hours [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Flemish]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Manuscript \(Additional MS. 35313\), 235 x 165 mm ## Commentary Rothschild Book of Hours 1500-05 Manuscript \(Additional MS. 35313\), 235 x 165 mm British Library, London This Book of Hours, known as the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile', was made for a woman and a member of the Spanish court or royal family, perhaps Joanna I \(1479-1555\), Queen of Castile and Aragon \[Joanna the Mad\], who married Philip I the Handsome \(d. 1506\), son of Mary of Burgundy. It contains 237 parchment folios. The miniature on folio 34 shows the building of the Tower of Babel. Notable is the scaffolding, the ladders and the crane worked by a tread-wheel inside the building. It is one of the many medieval manuscript illustrations showing buildings under construction. ## Related artworks - [Apocalypse]() - [Boccaccio: Des cas des ruynes des nobles hommes et femmes]() - [Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae]() - [Book of Hours \(La Flora\)]() - [Book of Hours \(La Flora\)]() - [Book of Hours of Isabella of Castile]() - [Book of Hours of Isabella of Castile]() - [Book of Hours of Marie of Gueldern]() - [Book of Hours of Marie of Gueldern]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Book of Hours]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()