Live auction - Lot 1027
[Facsimile]
Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry.
(Luzern, Faksimile Verlag, 2003-2006)
Hammer price: €
1.000
€ 800 / 1.200
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Lot description
2 vol., 4to + 1 vol., 8vo (Transcription) + 1 Prospectus vol., folio.
Publ. gilt ornamented brown sheep by Steinbrener, spine with raised bands; publ. half brown sheep, brown cloth on covers with a gilt fillet on the left, flat spine. Both vol. in a plexiglas case. Transcription: Bradel publ. brown cloth, front cover titled in gilt, flat spine, slipcase. Prospectus: publ. brown cloth portfolio.
"Faithful recreation of the illuminated manuscript The Cloisters 1954, acc. no. 54.1.1. preserved at The Metropolitan Museum, New York". Issue limited to 980 copies incl. 80 not for sale (n. 16). With accompanying commentary in German by Eberhard König and the transcription and German translation (by König and G. Bartz) in separate volumes. Prospectus of the publication with 5 examples of pages or illuminations under passe-partout joined.