232 MS 65 F114 V - Public domain dedication image
Summary
Created between 1405 and 1408 or 1409, probably in Paris, the Belles Heures, or Beautiful Hours, a private devotional book, is one of the most sumptuous manuscripts to have come down to us from the Middle Ages. Commissioned by Jean de France, duc de Berry from the Limbourg brothers, the most gifted artists of their time, it is the only manuscript completed by them in its entirety.
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tres riches heures du duc de berry scan 2004
france
latin manuscript
illuminated manuscripts
belles heures of jean de france duc de berry
medieval
middle ages
high resolution
Date
1411 - 1416
Source
Photo. R.M.N. / R.-G. Ojéda
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Copyright info
public domain