Description
Facsimile study book Hours of the Virgin Mary, Flanders 15th century. 2005 edition of the beautiful codex whose original is kept in a private library.
Book hardcover hardcover, size 16.5 x 22.5 cm, 128 pages. Texts in Spanish. The guards are reproductions of the illuminations of the manuscript and in its interior also included 8 mounted plates corresponding to the illuminations of the original codex, something that is very unusual in this type of study books.
The hourbooks, which had made their appearance in the thirteenth century, reached their greatest flowering in the fifteenth century, especially in France and the Netherlands. They became the most widespread type of religious manuscript, since it was intended for all laymen, regardless of their status, although logically their main recipients were the nobility and the incipient mercantile bourgeoisie. The interest of books of hours lies mainly in its decoration, which became a privileged space for the development of the Gothic and Renaissance miniature. The miniatures of this codex belong to a moment of maximum splendor of European art, the Flanders of the fifteenth century.
Exemplary in perfect condition. This article only corresponds to the study book of the facsimile edition, the facsimile of the Book of Hours is not given.
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