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Moleiro, Manuel; Besseyre, Marianne & Christe, Yves.
Bible moralisée of Naples.
Publisher: M. Moleiro Editor, Barcelona;
Date of Publication: 2011
Stock Code: 10457
FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. 371, [3]. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles and floral motif to spine and upper board and gold ribbon placemarker, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Unobtrusive minor scuff to jacket front otherwise a Fine copy in like jacket. In-depth well-illustrated study of the mid fourteenth century illuminated manuscript made in Naples on the basis of an archetype designed in France for the thirteenth-century royal court. The manuscript had many changes of ownership from Duchess Yolande of Aragon through to the Biblitheque Nationale in Paris (MS Francais 9561), and this detailed work tells the history and significance of the exquisite masterpiece of art history. £350.00