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The Hours of Guy Le Peley made an astonishing appearance on the art market in 2005 and constitutes a prominent addition to the corpus of the celebrated and prolific illuminator Jean Colombe. Created in the early 1480s in Bourges, the Hours of Guy Le Peley is a book of hours containing prayer services in Latin preceded by a calendar in French. Decorated with luxurious colors and abundant gold, it boasts sixteen historiated initials, three small miniatures, and fifteen full-page miniatures. The facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.
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Horas de Le Peley, Jean Colombe
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Horas de Le Peley
- Subtitle
- Facsimile
- Language
- Latin, French
- Authors
- Jean Colombe
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Fine Art, Religious Topics, Painting & Sculpture, Religion, Gothic, Christian Art and Symbolism, Facsimile, Illuminations and Decorations
- Rating
- 5 out of 5
- Description
- The Hours of Guy Le Peley made an astonishing appearance on the art market in 2005 and constitutes a prominent addition to the corpus of the celebrated and prolific illuminator Jean Colombe. Created in the early 1480s in Bourges, the Hours of Guy Le Peley is a book of hours containing prayer services in Latin preceded by a calendar in French. Decorated with luxurious colors and abundant gold, it boasts sixteen historiated initials, three small miniatures, and fifteen full-page miniatures. The facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.