Great Hours of Anne of Brittany Bibliothèque nationale de France • Paris “Unique and unrepeatable first edition, strictly limited to 987 numbered and authenticated copies” The folios of this codex feature veritable paintings rather than the illuminations usual in this type of book. Jean Bourdichon painted almost fifty full-page scenes with gold frames upon a ground of parchment dyed black. These miniatures are comparable to paintings on canvas or board not only because of their dimensions but also because of their foregrounds, use of perspective, pictorial technique, realism of the portraits, etc. The magnificent herbal in the margins of the text folios makes this manuscript two codices in one: a book of hours and a natural encyclopaedia. • Shelf mark: Lat. 9474 • Date: c. 1503-1508 • Provenance: Tours • Size: 305 x 200 mm • 476 illuminated pages with 49 full-page paintings • 337 marginal illuminations with plants, insects and small mammals • Full-colour commentary volume (400 p.) by Marie-Pierre Laffitte (BnF), Georges Minois (Historian of Brittany), Michèle Bilimoff (CNRS) and Carlos Miranda (Doctor in History) moleiro/en/books-of-hours/great-hours-of-anne-of-brittany.html
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