Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art
If this sparkling book contained only its crystalline reproductions of illuminated manuscripts, it  would satisfy most lovers of these charming miniatures. But Roger S. Wieck, curator of medieval and  Renaissance manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City, is the most entertaining of  authors. His enthusiasm for what he dubs "the Medieval best-seller" is thoroughly infectious.  "Books of Hours linked church and home," he writes. "The entire celestial court, God and  his cosmos, could be held within the palms of one's hands." Wieck has turned his scholarly, historical  material into a page-turner. Given the hypnotic beauty of the manuscripts themselves, with all their  flayings, blessings, betrayals, and epiphanies,Painted Prayersshould be a bestseller in its own  right.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.