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Heures dites de Henri IV; reproduction réduite des 60 peintures du manuscrit latin 1171 de la Bibliothèque nationale

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Manuscript. Latin 1171, Couderc, Camille, 1860-, Catholic Church. Book of hours, Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des manuscrits · 1908 · Paris, Impr. Berthaud Frères · 61 pictures

A 1908 Paris facsimile album, edited by Camille Couderc for the Bibliothèque nationale, reproducing in reduced monochrome the 60 miniatures of the late-medieval French book of hours known as the Hours of Henri IV, issued for scholars and collectors. The plates show single-scene compositions with heavy draped figures, bishops, kneeling penitents and tooled architecture against hatched landscapes, useful for silhouettes, drapery studies and framed figure vignettes.

Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610 · Illumination of books and manuscripts · Books of hours

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