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Les très riches heures du duc de Berry.

Title
Les très riches heures du duc de Berry.
Author
Catholic Church Liturgy.
Publication
Lucerne, Suisse : Editions fac-similés ; New York : Harry N. Abrams, c1984.

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TextRestricted use *KF+ 1984 85-174Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Limbourg, Pol de, approximately 1385-approximately 1416.
  • Colombe, Jean, active 1463-1498.
  • Cazelles, Raymond.
  • Rathofer, Johannes.
Description
206 leaves [i.e. 412 p.] : col. ill.; 31 cm. +
Subject
  • Catholic Church > Liturgy > Texts
  • Books of hours > Texts
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic > France
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
  • Manuscripts, Latin > Facsimiles
Note
  • "980 copies worldwide, numbered with Arabic numerals ... [and] 80 copies numbered with Roman numerals [not offered for sale]"--Colophon of the facsim. No. 269 of "350 copies reserved for the English language market."
  • Title page information transcribed from colophon (in French, German and English) of the facsim.
  • Full-color facsim. of the Latin ms. illuminated by Pol, Jean (Hennequin) and Hermann de Limbourg and Jean Colombe; commentary vol. including transcription of the text and translation by Peter Levi in parallel columns.
  • Reproduced and printed by Mengis + Sticher, Lucerne.
  • Commentary volume has t.p. reading: The Très riches heures of Jean, Duke of Berry : commentary to the facsimile edition of manuscript 65 from the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly / Raymond Cazelles ; with additions by Johannes Rathofer ; translated by Theodore Swift Faunce.
  • Commentary vol. also issued in French and German. Bibliography: p. 143-149. Includes index. List of illustrations in French and German: [2] p. inserted.
  • Binding, publisher's, by Burkhardt, Zurich, of red leather, gilt (facsim.) and quarter red leather and green silk boards (commentary). Issued together in a Lucite case (34 cm.).
Call Number
*KF+ 1984 85-174
ISBN
  • 0810916649 (facsim. : Harry N. Abrams)
  • 0810949997 (commentary)
LCCN
84070473
OCLC
  • 13700151
  • NYPG85-B47844
Author
Catholic Church Liturgy.
Title
Les très riches heures du duc de Berry.
Imprint
Lucerne, Suisse : Editions fac-similés ; New York : Harry N. Abrams, c1984.
Edition
Facsimile ed.
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Added Author
Limbourg, Pol de, approximately 1385-approximately 1416.
Colombe, Jean, active 1463-1498.
Cazelles, Raymond.
Rathofer, Johannes.
Research Call Number
*KF+ 1984 85-174
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