They summarize all that medieval man worshiped and feared, depicted in miniatures wondrous with ... Back in 1856, a Paris dealer sold a 193-page manuscript. Dated around 1435, it was recognized ...

Miniatures – tiny portraits, often no bigger than a palm and sometimes as small as the width of a thumb – were the descendants of the gold-leaf illuminations in medieval manuscripts.

It has thirteen fairly formulaic full page illustrations (or 'miniatures'), seven of which were painted on single leaves ('singletons ... London: 1994 Level 11 Bibliog B160 1994 (especially chapter 6, ...

As Christopher du Hamel comments, their cultural impact was wide and deep: 'to the great majority of the medieval population of Europe ... (49r), and the Flight into Egypt at Vespers (55r). Two ...

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This is the first study devoted entirely to the manuscript and reproduces all the book’s glowing miniatures in full color. It will serve as a lively introduction to the Spitz Hours for scholars and ...