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Sorry Out of Stock de Berry [Duc]; Samaran, Charles; Longnon, Jean [intro.] Catalogue No.: 4811b
Publisher: | Paris.: Draeger. | Edition: | Reprint; Published Date: 1970 | Illustrations: | Colour plates. | Dimensions: | 300 x 240 mm (12 x 9 inches) - 23pp, [280pp]. | Appearance: | Illustrated laminated board cover. | Condition: | VG : in very good condition without dust jacket and in clear protective wraps. |
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Text in French.
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century. It is a very richly decorated Book of Hours containing over 200 folios, of which about half are full page illustrations. It was painted sometime between 1412 and 1416 by the Limbourg brothers for their patron Jean, Duc de Berry. They left it unfinished at their (and the Duke's) death in 1416. Charles I, Duke I of Savoy commissioned Jean Colombe to finish the paintings between 1485-1489.
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