[Mediaevistik] Le livre d'heures enluminé en Bretagne The Illuminated Book of Hours in Brittany

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Fr Okt 30 10:52:15 CET 2015


Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Thank you for supporting our initiative to publish :

Le livre d'heures enluminé en Bretagne // The Illuminated Book of Hours in Brittany 
Jean-Luc Deuffic
with the collaboration of Diane Booton (Boston)
Introduction : Roger S. Wieck, Curator Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts department, Pierpont Morgan library, New York 

A book of private piety par excellence, the book of hours emerged as one of the best-sellers — one of the most popular works — of the Middle Ages, and in this respect, it remains an essential source for social and cultural history of medieval society. This collection of prayers and devotions, linked to the different hours of the day with its calendar, its litanies of saints, and the particulars of local liturgy, most often illuminated according to the patron’s desires, thus opens the doors of a new world to us.

The proposed publication forms a corpus of nearly four hundred manuscripts connected directly to Brittany, either written for the specific use of one of the nine Breton dioceses or commissioned or just owned by Bretons. Whether illuminated by the greatest masters of the period or by local or itinerant ordinary artisans, in the atelier of the talented Jean Bourdichon (one thinks of the Grandes Heures of Anne de Bretagne) or in the more anonymous ateliers of Rennes or Nantes which were very active from the beginning of the fifteenth century, books of hours invite us to turn the pages of our history. ​Scattered throughout the world in the most prestigious libraries or in private collections, the unique patrimony gathered together here unveils a distinctive aspect of the history of Brittany, thus contributing to reveal richness less often explored.

Each entry contains an accurate physical description of the manuscript with particular reference to its history, accompanied by a splendid colour illustration.
Text in French and summary of entries in English.​
Approximately 500 pages, measuring 22 x 30 cm., 200 illustrations in colour and black/white. Softcover or hardback.
Publication : last quarter 2016

You can support us directly on the crowdfunding platform:  http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/le-livre-d-heures-enlumine-en-bretagne


© Heribert Tenschert



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