Facsimile delle miniature contenute nel Breviario Grimani conservato nella Biblioteca di S. Marco
By: eseguito in fotografia da Antonio Perini ; con illustrazioni di Francesco Zanotto ; tradotte in francese da M. Louis de Mas Latrie = Fac similé des miniatures contenues dans le Breviario Grimani conservé à la Bibliothèque de S. Marc / executé en photographie par Antonio Perini ; avec explications de Francesco Zanotto ; et texte français de M. Louis de Mas Latrie
Publisher: Stabilimento fotografico A. Perini
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Venezia
Language: ita; fre; lat
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Latin Manuscripts; Facsimiles; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Specimens; Grimani breviary
Other titles: Fac-similé des miniatures contenues dans le Breviario Grimani conservé á la Bibliothèque de S. Marc; Breviario Grimani
Work titles: Grimani breviary
Description: The 110 plates, which reproduce the binding and selected pages from the breviary, are mounted albumen prints.
Notes: Chromolithographed illustrated title page.

The miniatures in the Grimani breviary are variously attributed to Gerard van der Meire, Alexander Bening, Gerard Horebout, Lievin van Lathem, Jan Grossaert, and others. They are apparently by different hands. ^Cf. F. de Mély in Rev. de l'art anc. et moderne, t. 25 (1909 jan.-juin), p. 81-92, 225-236; and A. Michiels, Memlinc.

The plates, which reproduce the binding and selected pages from the breviary, are mounted photographs (albumen prints).

Includes bibliographical references.

Access restricted; permission of Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts required.

Purchase; Wilsey Rare Books; 22 August 2002; 2002H-67; $1500.00 (P&GA Acquisitions fd.).

Italian text with French translation in parallel columns; text of the breviary is in Latin.

The prints are slightly faded.

Bound in original (?) crimson morocco, blocked in gilt and blind, "Breviario Grimani" gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, edges gilt and gauffered; in case, 34 cm.