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Master of James IV of Scotland; Maximilian Master [and] Garcia-Tejedor, Carlos Miranda.
Libro de Horas de Juana I de Castilla [with] The Book of Hours of Joanna of Castile [commentary volume].
Publisher: M. Moleiro editor, Barcelona;
Date of Publication: 2005
Stock Code: 9918
Number 42 in a LIMITED EDITION of 987 copies only. Large octavo, ff. 236, [3]. Bound replicating the current binding of the original manuscript, in an eighteenth century style full russet brown morocco over boards, with floral rolls, fillets and corner fleurons in gilt; 8 gilt rolled raised spine bands, burgundy and scarlet Morocco spine labels with gilt titles; gilt fore-edges. Housed in a matching gilt rolled russet brown morocco slipcase. Commentary volume quarto, pp., 428, [2]. Illustated throughout in colour. Scarlet cloth with gilt titles and strawberry decoration to spine and upper board, in pictorial dust-jacket. With the original prospectus for the worl laid-in to the commenatry volume. Some very faint small scuffs to boards and slipcase. Commentary volume dust-jacket lightly sunned spine. Overall Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with Near Fine commentary in Very Good jacket. An exceptionally high quality facsimile reproduction of the lavish Hours of Joanna I of Castile. The illuminations are attributed to Gerard Horenbout, the leading Flemish illuminator of the sixteenth century, and Alexander Bening and his atelier. The codex is decorated with opulent illuminations, colourful borders, and historiated initials with gothic script. And the expressive three-dimensional realism found in the Horenbout’s illuminated scenes, in particular those in the Passion Cycle, make this one of his most sophisticated and impressive works.



£3000.00