master dresden hours (1 Ergebnisse)

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.