Savoy Hours, Die.

The Savoy Hours. Les Heures de Savoy. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 390. Facsimile and commentary by Roger S. Wieck and Raymond Clemens. 2 vols. Lucerne, Quaternio Verlag (2017). 8° (facsimile) and 4° (commentary volume). [26], [2] pp. (color facsimile); 255 pp. with some col. Orig. morocco leather binding with rich gilt to spine and cover in orig. cloth case and leather slipcase and OLn. with gilt title to spine and cover. One of 680 num. Copies. - "The Savoy Hours, or rather the part of them that has remained after almost 600 years, delights the viewer with the most marvelous book illumination. Wonderful colors, sparkling gold, elegant proportions. In the 50 miniatures, delicate figures act against varied backgrounds decorated with golden grids, lines, diamonds, tendrils and squares. They were created by the workshop successor of the famous Parisian illuminator Jean Pucelle. Book art that still fascinates and arouses desire today! As a bibliophile book object, the Savoy Hours come in a gold-embossed robe - "the most magnificent fragment of a lost masterpiece" (Roger S. Wieck, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York). - As new copy.