The Bedford Hours
by Backhouse, Janet
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 071230231X
- ISBN 13
- 9780712302319
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
British Library, 1990 4to (27.5 cm), 64 pp, 51 plates. Laminated wrappers. "The Bedford Hours is one of Britain's major treasures. An outstanding example of late medieval manuscript art, it was written and illuminated in the early 15th century for John, Duke of Bedford, younger brother of King Henry V, and his wife, Anne of Burgundy. The principal artist of the leading Parisian workshop in which it was produced takes his name, the 'Bedford Master' from his English patron. Expertly planned and professionally executed, the Bedford Hours is celebrated for the enormous range of its pictorial scheme, with many superb large miniatures in brilliant colours, and almost 1250 exquisite marginal details. Here Janet Backhouse examines the overall design of the Hours, discussing the historical background to its production and ownership, with 60 colour and black-and-white plates showing full pages and details beautifully reproduced from the manuscript." (from the blurb)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008378
- Title
- The Bedford Hours
- Author
- Backhouse, Janet
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 071230231X
- ISBN 13
- 9780712302319
- Publisher
- British Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Art; Illuminated manuscripts;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections