Book of Hours: Illuminations

Book Description
Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

About the Author
James Thorpe is a distinguished scholar and former director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from 1966-1983. He was Professor of English at Princeton for many years and has written numerous works on authors from Chaucer to Wallace Stevens. He is now a Senior Research Associate at the Huntington Library.


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Seventeen jewel-like miniature manuscript paintings are reproduced in this color facsimile from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours in the Huntington Library collections. The introduction discusses the history and meaning of Books of Hours, both as books of devotion and as works of art. Each plate is accompanied by commentary.


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