Bibliothèque nationale de France Nouvelle acquisition latine 3210, known as the Hours of Jean de Chateauneuf, is a Book from northern France made around the end of the 15th Century. It has a series of lovely miniatures, painted by Georges Trubert, tending towards shades of blue. The calendar is complete, unusual for a Use of Rome book, and again gives blue primacy, it is the color of the most important saints. The one flaw is that the blue ink is not as stable as the brown and red used for the rest of the entries and has faded to illegibility on some of the pages, see the first name on September (f.5r) below. There are also an unusually large number, 53, of unidentified saints. Further work is needed
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