Jean Pucelle - Savoy Hours – Limited Edition Facsimile, Fine Binding. - 2018

Savoy Hours – Limited Edition Facsimile, Fine Binding.
Paris (France) — 1334-1348 and 1370-1378
The iconic style for an entire genre and the seed of Jean de Berry's love of books: 26 surviving, magnificently illuminated pages of the masterpiece for Blanche of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy, which was burned in 1904.
Published 2018 by Quaternio Verlag Lucerne – Lucerne, in a limited edition of 680 copies. This copy is number 476.
Facsimile reproduction of the entire original document that is as accurate as possible (size, format, color). 52 pages / 20.1 × 14.7 cm. Bound in Moroccan leather with lavish gold embossing, in a Noble leather bound box.
Commentary volume by Raymond Clemens and Roger S. Wieck (Language: German, English, French)
Condition: New, commentary volume still in shrink wrap.

As an enchanting book of hours with a particularly rich decoration, the Savoy Hours had a stylistic influence on the history of book illumination and, as a model, decisively advanced the development of the book genre. On the 52 pages that have been preserved today, 50 miniatures framed by three-color quatrefoils and 106 decorative initials are gathered, which inspire the viewer with delicate figures in front of painterly backgrounds. The manuscript commissioned by Blanka of Burgundy (1295–1326) in the 1330s was created in two sections. The first part was probably made by the workshop successor of the well-known Paris illuminator Jean Pucelle (around 1300-around 1334) between 1334 and 1348 and the second part was added between 1370 and 1378 by the master of the Bible by Jean de Sy.