Illuminated Manuscripts
A small part of our extensive collection of original
museum-quality illuminated manuscripts in our stock.
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A small part of our extensive collection of original
museum-quality illuminated manuscripts in our stock.
Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. Book of hours for the use of Rome (with a calendar for Langres), from the late period of French illumination
An extremely small illuminated manuscript on vellum, presumably owned by Queen Claude of France. With 27 full or half-page miniatures by the Master of Claude de France. In a jewelled binding of gold and enamel, studded with 56 diamonds, from the Court of Emperor Rudolph II of Habsburg, in Prague c. 1600-1610 (est.).
Illuminated manuscript written in Latin on vellum. With 101 miniatures (18 full page or large and 83 smaller) by the Master of the Chronique Scandaleuse.
Illuminated manuscript on vellum. With 17 miniatures (8 of which are very large) by the Master of Anthony of Burgundy and the Master of the England Chronicles. Flanders, c. 1470-75.
Illuminated manuscript on vellum with 201 miniatures. The last illuminated manuscript of these texts in private hands.
Manuscript book of hours on vellum for the use of Paris. With 16 large illuminated miniatures by the Bedford Master (Haincelin de Haguenau) and Dunois Master (Jean Haincelin).
Illuminated manuscript in Latin and French on vellum. With 26 miniatures (10 large and 16 small) by the Boucicaut Master and his workshop.
This is the oldest known copy of the Bestiary of Love (Bestiaire d’amour) by Richard de Fournival, one of the most popular and most famous French works of literature during the middle ages.