MIDDLE AGES HOUR BOOKS. Paris: Engelmann, *Heures du Moyen Âge*,...
MIDDLE AGES HOUR BOOKS. Paris: Engelmann, *Heures du Moyen Âge*, published in Paris in 1887 by Gruel and Engelmann, in a beautiful contemporary binding. In 12, full green leather, richly decorated with gilt roulettes and fleurons on the covers, a ribbed spine adorned with fillets, and chiseled and gilt edges. Abundantly illustrated with exquisite color chromolithographs, directly inspired by medieval illumination: liturgical calendars, biblical scenes, prayers, the Ten Commandments, symbolic figures, and floral ornaments, in a style faithful to medieval books of hours. Clasps.
MIDDLE AGES HOUR BOOKS. Paris: Engelmann, *Heures du Moyen Âge*, published in Paris in 1887 by Gruel and Engelmann, in a beautiful contemporary binding. In 12, full green leather, richly decorated with gilt roulettes and fleurons on the covers, a ribbed spine adorned with fillets, and chiseled and gilt edges. Abundantly illustrated with exquisite color chromolithographs, directly inspired by medieval illumination: liturgical calendars, biblical scenes, prayers, the Ten Commandments, symbolic figures, and floral ornaments, in a style faithful to medieval books of hours. Clasps.
