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The Berry Library
Jean de Berry is known above all as a connoisseur of the arts, a bibliophile collector and a commissioner of extraordinary art treasures and invaluable painted manuscripts. The legendary library of the Duke of Berry impressed even his contemporaries by its high quality and the elaborate decoration of most of its volumes. An eclectic collector, Jean de Berry had interests that extended beyond the artistic and literary production of his contemporaries to earlier works of the 14th century, resulting in an astonishingly varied collection.
Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry
Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 65
Executed between 1410 and 1485 by the Limburg Brothers, this unique work with its innovatory spirit and bold artistic approach clearly outdid everything hitherto known. The script is of extreme beauty and clarity and richly decorated with initials and ornamental borders. However, the main feature of this manuscript, which has brought its international renown, are above all the marvelous miniatures in the manner of panel paintings, making it among the most famous and precious books of the world.
FAKSIMILE VERLAG EDITION €13,800 € 5,980
FRANCO COSIMO PANINI EDITION €16,500 € 8,900
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Belles Heures of the Duke of Berry
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. No. 54.1.1
For his most personal Book of Hours, the Belles Heures, the Duke of Berry engaged the most famous book painters of his time: the Limbourg Brothers. All 172 miniatures have a vivacity and colorfulness that secure for them a place in the history of illumination. Every page is surrounded by decorative filigree scrollwork with up to 500 gold glowing ivy leaves, and the combination of gold leaf and shell gold in the miniatures creates permanently glowing and glittering effects, while scenes of study and learning testify to the Duke’s great interest in science and scholarship.
FAKSIMILE VERLAG EDITION €9,980 € 3,680
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Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Ms. 11060-61
The Brussels Hours marks a turning point in the history of the book of hours genre. Its 20 full-page miniatures and 17 initial pages show for the first time a truly modern approach to illumination: large miniatures in simple rectangles and independent in style. One of the highlights in the Brussels Hours is a double-page executed in demi-grisaille, a technique that became very en vogue in the Parisian manuscripts of the 14th century. The uniform grey reminds one of a statue and allows artists to play on volume and light.
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Turin-Milan Hours
Turin, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Inv. N. 47 | Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino, Hs. K.IV.29 | Paris, Musée du Louvre, RF 2022-2025
The Turin-Milan Hours were ordered by a series of art lovers over a period of more than fifty years and thus presenting a true treasure trove of painting styles. The work displays two of the most progressive art movements of the time, namely those of France and the Low Countries. While some of the miniatures rank among the most beautiful examples of late Gothic painting in France, others are revolutionary, if not visionary, in style, being celebrated as the beginnings of old Dutch painting and closely connected with the art of Jan van Eyck
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Brussels Hours
FAKSIMILE VERLAG EDITION €4,500 € 1,750
TURIN- MILAN HOURS LAST COPY € 1,600 LEAVES OF LOUVRE € 860 € 400
Petites Heures of the Duke of Berry
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. Lat. 18014
Both text and miniature pages of this lavish book of hours are decorated throughout with the most exquisite scrollwork or rinceaux, with birds and butterflies. The book offers a true gallery of pictures that would do credit to any museum – all in all, 119 miniatures ornate this outstanding work. Depictions range from the miniatures of the calendar to the life of the Virgin and the Passion of Christ right through to scenes from the lives of saints particularly venerated by the Duke, who loved carrying the book with him on his numerous journeys.
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€ 6,980 € 2,490
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Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Nouv. acq. lat. 3093
The 25 miniature pages of the Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame display the unsurpassed splendor of book illumination which has made this manuscript so famous. Each page contains a large miniature in the style of panel painting accompanied by a lavishly historiated initial and a figurative scene in the bottom margin, conveying the overall impression that the manuscript obeys the laws of the most sophisticated artistic design. It is no wonder that the Duke’s inventory mentions it as “a most beautiful Book of Hours of Our Lady in artful letters”.
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€4,480 € 2,180
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