Master dresden hours (2 resultados)

Hard Cover. Folio, pp. 349, [3]. Parallel text in French and English. Illustrated throughout. Bound in full scarlet cloth over boards with black titles and ornaments to upper board and spine with scarlet woven place-marker. In a black and scarlet pictorial dust-jacket. Very minimal light shelfwear to dust-jacket. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket. Scholarly commentary by leading academics on the historical context, production, and provenance of the Isabella Breviary (Add. Ms. 1851). The breviary is an example of the most exuberant phrase of Flemish manuscript illumination, with it's exquisite artwork being having been attributed to several significant miniaturists including the Master of the Dresden Hours (active in Bruges ca. 14801515) and the Master of James IV of Scotland (ca. 14881525). The 2020 book is edited and published by the luxury Spanish printing house of Moleiro, with their reproductions being described by the Times as "The Art of Perfection", and is lavishly illustrated with 290 high quality full colour illustrations.…

Limited edition of 1180 numbered copies and 20 lettered copies. 2 vols, facsimile bound in full silk brocade; commentary in cloth-backed boards, 21 cm, in publisher's original clamshell box, The facsimile comprises 185 leaves (370 ills) and the commentary volume has 144 pp. A splendidly produced full colour facsimile of the Fitzwilliam Book of Hours (Fitzwilliam Museum ms 1058-1975) , together with a separate commentary volume, in the publisher's original clamshell box. The manuscript was produced in Bruges around 1510. Its illuminations are attributed to the Master of the Dresden Hours and the Master of James IV of Scotland, among others. The principal contents of the commentary volume are: I Piety and Splendour: The Book of Hours in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; II Structure, Design and Script; III The Texts (The Calendar; Prayer to the Holy Face; The Passion According to St John; The Short Hours of the Cross and the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; The Mass of the Virgin; the Gospel Sequences and the Hours of the Virgin; The Penitential Psalms and Litany The Office of the Dead; Prayers, Special Devotions and Suffrages to the Saints); IV The Illumination and the Artists; V Original Patronage and Later Ownership; Conclusion; Appendix I: Physical Description of the Fitzwilliam Hours; Appendix II: The Artists' Materials < Spike Bucklow); Select Bibliography. Set number 1159. Fine in Fine solander case.…