Das Briçonnet-Stundenbuch
Subtitle: The Briçonnet Hours
Publisher: Quaternio Verlag Luzern
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Luzern
Language: lat
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9783905924718
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Books of hours; Illustrations; French Illumination of books and manuscripts; Renaissance Illumination of books and manuscripts; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Facsimiles; Liturgy; Texts; Art patronage; Liturgics; Teylers Museum; Catholic Church
Other titles: Briçonnet Hours
Work titles: Book of hours (Manuscript Briçonnet)
Notes: Full-color facsimile of a manuscript book of hours produced in Tours, France around 1485. The Briçonnet Hours are named for Guillaume Briçonnet, their probable patron, and feature 25 full-page illuminations by the artist Jean Poyer. The manuscript is preserved at the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, under the shelfmark Ms. 78.

Commentary has title: Das Briçonnet-Stundenbuch: Ms. 78, Haarlem, Teylers Museum.

Commentary includes contributions by Pierre-Gilles Girault, Mara Hofmann, Christine Seidel, and Roger S. Wieck.

Edition of 680 copies numbered with Arabic numerals; an additional 60 copies, numbered in Roman numerals, are reserved for archival purposes.

Title from colophon of facsimile.

Issued in slipcase.

Commentary includes bibliographical references and index.

The manuscript facsimile is in Latin; the accompanying commentary is in German.

Library owns copy 165.