Writing and the Manuscript Book - Books of hours

Lot Comprises:

Morgan Library & Museum, M 944

Colin Eisler, The Prayer Book of Michelino da Besozzo, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, ca. 1981, 8vo., publisher's green reversed sheep gilt, slipcase

British Library, Add Ms 34294

Mark Evans, The Sforza Hours, New York, 1992, square 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Biblioteca Nacional de España, Vitr. 24-3

Libro de Horas de Carlos V, Madrid, Club Biliófilo Versol, 2002, 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt

Yale University, Beinecke Library, Ms 400

Millard Meiss, The De Lévis Hours and the Bedford Workshop, New Haven, Yale University Library, 1972, 4to., publisher's orange cloth

Morgan Library & Museum, M. 917 and M. 945

John Plummer, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, New York, George Braziller, [n.d., 1970?], 8vo., publisher's simulated vellum, gilt, pasteboard slipcase

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters, 54.1.02

James J. Rorimer, The Hours of Jeanne D'Évreux, Queen of France, at the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1957, 12mo., simulated vellum gilt

Musée Condé, Chantilly

Patricia Stirneman, M.‐T Gousset, C. Rabel, E. Toulet, Les Heures d'Étienne Chevalier par Jean Fouquet: Les quarante enluminures de Musée Condé, Chantilly, 2005, 4to., publisher's colored printed wrappers

Morgan Library & Museum, M. 69

Webster Smith, The Farnese Hours, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, George Braziller, 1976, 8vo., publisher's reversed sheep pseudo‐16th century binding, slipcase

Musée Condé, Chantilly

Charles Sterling & Claude Schaefer, The Hours of Étienne Chevalier: Jean Fouquet, New York, G. Braziller, 1971, fol., publisher's red cloth gilt, slip case

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (62 ff); Bibliothèque Municipale, Besançon (57 ff.)

Walter L. Strauss, The Book of Hours of the Emperor Maximilian the First, Decorated by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Jörg Breu, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Other Artists, Printed in 1513 by Johannes Schoensperger at Augsburg, New York, 1974, fol., publisher's red cloth, slipcase

Victoria & Albert Museum, MS L.475-1918

Rowan Watson, The Playfair hours: a late fifteenth century illuminated manuscript from Rouen, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, blue cloth slipcase

Morgan Library & Museum, MS H.8

Roger S. Weick, William Voelkle & K. Michelle Hearne, The hours of Henry VIII: a Renaissance masterpiece by Jean Poyet, New York, George Braziller, in association with the Pierpont Morgan Library, 2000, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters, 54.1.01

Timothy B. Husband, The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, New York, 2008, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Sold as a group, not subject to return.