Picturing piety
Subtitle: the book of hours
By: Roger S. Wieck with Sandra Hindman and Ariane Bergeron-Foote.
Contributors: Hindman, Sandra, 1944-; Bergeron-Foote, Ariane.; Enluminures (Firm).
Series: Catalogue -- 13.
Publisher: Paul Holberton Pub. for Les Enluminures, Paris and Chicago; University of Washington Press [distributor], c2007.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781903470657
Subjects: Books of hours -- Catalogs; Books of hours -- Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance
Genres: Catalogs.; Illustrations.
Description: "This catalogue of Books of Hours, the "bestseller" of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, presents twenty-six Books of Hours mostly dating from fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of these Books of Hours are previously entirely unknown and unpublished. An introductory essay explores how illuminated Books of Hours pictured the piety of medieval readers who used texts accompanied by visual aids in their devotions."--Jacket.
Notes: "This is a catalogue of Books of Hours acquired by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) over the last three years." -- P. 5.

Price list laid in.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273).

English and French.
Table of contents: title: Peckover Hours; title: Billy Hours; title: Hours of Johannes Meckis; title: Hours of Marie-Antoinette of Naples; title: Hours of Jacques Laroche; title: Hours of Jean Frigard; title: Hours of Claeise den Hoeghe; title: Hours of Jacques de Brégilles; title: Rokeghem Hours; title: Printed horae.