Live auction - Lot 988
[Facsimile - Manuscript]
The Isabella Breviary. British Library, London. Add. Ms. 18.851.
Barcelona, M. Moleiro, 2010
Hammer price: €
2.000
€ 1.500 / 1.800
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo.
Embossed black morocco, gilt title on spines, a.e.g., leather endpapers. Excellent copy.
Impressive colour facsimile of what is considered to be one of the most luxurious Flemish breviaries, dated the last decade of the 15th c. and held in the British Library. Illuminated by six different hands including the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, Gérard Horenbout (also known as the Master of James IV of Scotland) and Gérard David. One of 987 numb. copies (n. 460). With the companion volume of studies by Elisa Ruiz, Nigel Morgan and Scot McKendrick, French version. Authenticated.