Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve
Contributors: Master of Catherine of Cleves, active 1430-1460; Dückers, Rob; König, Eberhard, 1947-; Korteweg, A. S.; Marrow, James H.; Voelkle, William M.; Wieck, Roger S.; Pierpont Morgan Library
Publisher: Faksimile Verlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gütersloh; München
Language: lat
Number of pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9783856721176
Subjects: Books of hours; Illustrations; Dutch Illumination of books and manuscripts; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Facsimiles; Library; Hours of Catherine of Cleves; Pierpont Morgan Library
Other titles: Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
Work titles: Book of hours (Ms. Catherine of Cleves)
Notes: Full-color facsimile of ms. book of hours for the use of Windesheim, written and illuminated in Utrecht, the Netherlands, ca. 1440; its illumination is by the eponymous Master of Catherine of Cleves. Ms. is preserved at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, under the shelfmarks M.917 and M.945.

The leaves of the facsimile are bound in the original 15th-century order.

German-language commentary has title: Das Stundenbuch der Katharina von Kleve : MS M.917 und MS M.945, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

Commentary by Rob Dückers, Eberhard König, Anne S. Korteweg, James H. Marrow, William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck.

Ed. of 980 copies numbered in Arabic numerals, with another 80 copies reserved for archival purposes and assigned Roman numerals.

Facsimile issued with an accompanying leather-covered cardboard stand that houses the commentary, and upon which the facsimile rests under a plexiglass bonnet. The enclosure measures 39 x 29 x 22 cm.

"The binding of the facsimile is a reproduction of an historic Utrecht binding from the period after 1480 (Codex 2734 of the Austrian National Library, Vienna)"--Colophon.

Title from colophon.

Issued in cardboard boxes.

Commentary includes bibliographical references.

Ms. in Latin; commentary in German. Facsimile has colophon in German and English.