Made for a Prince: The Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza
Made for a Prince: The Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza
This is a luxurious and large format Book of Hours written and illuminated for Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Count of Pavia and Duke of Milan.
With five splendid title-pages with golden display script, one hundred large illuminated initials, small historiated initial with part-border, historiated initials and inhabited borders containing family emblems, ducal arms, monogram and portraits of patron. It is a witness of humanistic learning in Renaissance Italy. Not least due to the illuminator’s expert use of liquid gold, it presents a work of formidable Italian manuscript production. To see this and other splendid manuscripts in person, visit us at our stand E3 at Frieze Masters London, from 11-15 October at The Regent’s Park. We look forward to welcome you at our stand!
Manuscripts
The Dartmouth Hours
A devotional manuscript of exquisite taste illuminated by the Mansel Master
The Croÿ-Arenberg Hours
An outstanding achievement of Flemish illumination
Dominican Hours
A richly illuminated manuscript revised by the Spanish Inquisition
Book of Hours by the Master of Jean Rolin
A rediscovered Book of Hours by the Master of Jean Rolin
Flemish Psalter
A beautifully decorated Psalter from the Southern Netherlands
The Catherine Hours
An exquisite Book of Hours with erotic decoration
The ‘Firmin Didot Augustine’
An early codex with an impressive illustration showing the enthroned church father Augustine
The Physiologus
The last surviving medieval Physiologus manuscript remaining in private hands
St. Pantaleon Legendarium
An early German manuscript from the Rhineland
Petrarchs Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, I trionfi and Nota obituaria
A Renaissance manuscript in all its Glory
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Books I-XX
The most important encyclopedic treatise of the Middle Ages
The Sheriff Chiche Hours
A manuscript with an exceedingly rare depiction of a Manus Meditationis
Book of Hours by the Master of Petrarch’s Triumphs
A sublime book of hours for a refined lady
Moralia in Job
A gargantuan English Romanesque copy of a fundamentally important Christian text
Bible Historiale by the workshop of the Rambures Master
Impressive and unusual miniatures with a contemporary binding
The Psalter of Count Ludwig the Younger of Oettingen
A new addition to the corpus of Southern German illuminated manuscripts
Franciscan Psalter
From the lifetime of St Francis: A beautiful witness of Flemish manuscript production spurred by the new zeal of the Franciscan order settling in Bruges
The Hours of Isabella d’Este
A stunning Book of Hours created for one of the most renowned female Renaissance Patrons
The Perceforest
A rarely told Arthurian tale to guide a prince toward power
The Carnesecchi-Velluti Book of Hours
A precious book of hours with a dramatic trajectory through European history
Miniature Psalter
A masterpiece of the size of a post-it stamp
