Horas de Le Peley

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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.