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The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours : Ms 1058-1975. Folio Society edition 2 volumes facsimile and commentary boxed

2009 · rif. BIBLIO-69132 — The Folio Society London limited edition 2009. Limited edition of 1180 numbered copies and 20 lettered copies. 2 vols facsimile bound in full silk brocade; commentary in cloth-backed boards 21 cm in publisher's original clamshell box. The facsimile comprises 185 leaves 370 ills and the commentary volume has 144 pp. A splendidly produced full colour facsimile of the Fitzwilliam Book of Hours Fitzwilliam Museum ms 1058-1975 together with a separate commentary volume in the publisher's original clamshell box. The manuscript was produced in Bruges around 1510. Its illuminations are attributed to the Master of the Dresden Hours and the Master of James IV of Scotland among others. The principal contents of the commentary volume are: I Piety and Splendour: The Book of Hours in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; II Structure Design and Script; III The Texts The Calendar; Prayer to the Holy Face; The Passion According to St John; The Short Hours of the Cross and the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; The Mass of the Virgin; the Gospel Sequences and the Hours of the Virgin; The Penitential Psalms and Litany The Office of the Dead; Prayers Special Devotions and Suffrages to the Saints; IV The Illumination and the Artists; V Original Patronage and Later Ownership; Conclusion; Appendix I: Physical Description of the Fitzwilliam Hours; Appendix II: The Artists' Materials < Spike Bucklow; Select Bibliography. Set number 1159. Fine in Fine solander case. The Folio Society, London, limited edition, 2009 hardcover