Live auction - Lot 986
[Facsimile - Manuscript]
Les petites heures du Duc de Berry. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 18014.
Luzern, Faksimile Verlag, 1988-1989
Hammer price: €
750
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo.
Dark blue leather with gold tooling. In acrylic glass case.
Very nice coloured facsimile of one of the greatest testimonies to late medieval art commisioned to the most important illuminators of the late 14th century by Jean de France, Duke of Berry. One of 980 numb. copies (n. 523). With the commentary by François Avril, Louisa Dunlop and Brundson Yapp.