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New York: George Braziller, 1972., 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Quarto, hardcover, black cloth with gilt design, fine, in very good decorative slipcase. Beautiful reproductions of the magnificent full color plates in the illuminated Book of Hours painted by two artists in the early 1400's, in Florence. One of the most important illuminated manuscripts known. The original document is in the Bibliotheca Nazionale Florence. First Edition.
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- Title The Visconti Hours
- Author Millard & Kirsch, Edith Meiss
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 262
- Language ENG
- Publisher George Braziller, London
- Date 1972
- ISBN 9780500231722
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The Visconti Hours
by Meiss, Millard; Kirsch, Edith W.
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Thames & Hudson, 1972 4to (26 cm), 262 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt front cover. In cloth slip-case. A facsimile edition of "Hours of Gian Galeazzo Visconti", an illuminated Book of Hours that was commissioned by the ruler of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti in the late 14th century. Miniatures were painted by Giovannino dei Grassi and Luchino Belbello da Pavia. the manuscript is now in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence. In the Introduction in two parts a history of the manuscript, its structure and iconography are discussed. Included commentaries to each plate.
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