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The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux Queen of France. Facsimile edition. £20.00
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D'Evreux, Jeanne; Rorimer, James [intro.]

Catalogue No.: k1919

Publisher:

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edition:

Facsimile Edition; Published Date: 1957

Illustrations:

Colour plates

Dimensions:

140 x 100 mm (6 x 4 inches) - 28pp + plates.

Appearance:

Buff hardback cover on mock vellum papered boards

Condition:

G : in good condition without dust jacket.

A facsimile of an illuminated book of hours in the Gothic style. Created between 1324 and 1328 by Jean Pucelle for Jeanne d'Evreux, the third wife of Charles IV of France. It was sold in 1954 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is part of the collection held at The Cloisters. The book is very lavishly decorated, mostly in grisaille drawings, and is a highly important example of an early royal book of hours, a type of book designed for the personal devotions of a wealthy lay-person

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The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux Queen of France. Facsimile edition.
The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux Queen of France. Facsimile edition.