Grandes horas del duque de Berry
Contributors: Jacquemart, de Hesdin, active 1380-1411; Bedford Master, active 1415-1430; Boucicaut Master, active 15th century; Berry, Jean de France, duc de, 1340-1416; Thomas, Marcel, 1917-; Bibliothèque nationale de France; Musée du Louvre
Publisher: Patrimonio
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Valencia, Spain
Language: lat
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9788495061591; 9788495061607
Subjects: Books of hours; Illustrations; French Illumination of books and manuscripts; Gothic Illumination of books and manuscripts; Prayers and devotions; Art patronage; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Facsimiles; Grandes heures de Jean de Berry; Catholic Church; Bibliothèque nationale de France; Musée du Louvre
Other titles: Grandes heures of Jean, Duke of Berry; Grandes heures de Jean de Berry.
Work titles: Book of hours (Ms. Grandes heures de Jean de Berry)
Notes: Full-color facsimile of ms. produced for Jean, Duke of Berry, and completed in 1409. Its miniatures are attributed to Jacquemart de Hesdin, the Bedford Master, the Boucicaut Master and others. Ms. is currently preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France under the shelfmark ms. Latin 919. Ms. contains 212 miniatures; 45 were removed at an unknown date, with one surviving at the Musée du Louvre (ms. R.F. 2835).

In the current facsimile, Musée du Louvre ms. R.F. 2835, a full-page illumination depicting Christ carrying the cross by Jacquemart de Hesdin, is bound after fol. 71.

Accompanied by commentary: The grandes heures of Jean, Duke of Berry / introduction and legends by Marcel Thomas.

Ed. of 949 numbered copies.

Facsimile housed in a case (47 cm).

Title from colophon of facsimile.

Commentary includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-131).

Text in Latin; commentary in English.