Books of Hours Reconsidered

London : Harvey Miller, 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History. Physical description: 532 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-484) and indexes. Seventeen contributions in English and four in French. Contents: Introduction: Books of hours : state of the research / Sandra Hindman -- I. The prehistory of books of hours and the growth of their modern-day appreciation: Some perspectives on two French Horae in the thirteenth century / Adelaide Bennett -- Books of hours and the art market from the seventeenth century to the present day / Christopher de Hamel -- The Hours of Catherine of Cleves : the manuscript that changed the world / Roger S. Wieck -- II. Centers of Production: England, Germany, and Italy: English books of hours c. 1240-c.1480 / Nigel Morgan -- Another perspective : the book of hours in Germany / Jeffrey Hamburger -- Italian books of hours and prayer books in the fourteenth century / Francesca Manzari -- III. Toward a history of use: Beyond saints : variant litany readings and the localization of late Medieval manuscript books of hours : the d'Orges hours / Gregory T. Clark -- Books of hours from the northern Netherlands reconsidered : the uses of Utrecht and Windesheim and Geert Grote's role as a translator / Anne Korteweg -- IV. Problems of workshops: Picardie-Hainaut : quelques remarques sur les livres d'heures produits par le Ma�tre de Rambures et Simon Marmion / Marc Gil -- Manuscript production in a Carmelite convent : the case of Cornelia von Wulfschkercke / Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers -- La circulation des mod�les iconographiques : l'exemple d'un livre d'heures parisien (Paris, Biblioth�que nationale de France, n.a. lat. 3115) / Marie-Fran�oise Damongeot-Bourdat -- Matteo de Milano between Ferrara and Rome : the Hours of Dionora of Urbino / Mara Hofmann -- The use of stamps in Bruges book production / Saskia von Bergen -- Twins in attribution : a new fashion or a means to better understanding? : the case of the Grandes heures de Rohan / Eberhard K�nig -- V. Cycles of illustrations and their texts: Decoration programs in books of hours by the Masters of the Dark Eyes / Klara H. Broekhuijsen -- Devotional emphasis and distinctive variations in the illustration of the Hours of the Virgin in Italian books of hours / Bronwyn Stocks -- VI. Books of hours in the age of print: A group of hybrid manuscripts illustrated with woodcuts / Todor T. Petev -- L'�dition d'Heures du 21 avril 1505 : une �uvre charni�re dans la production de Thielman Kerver? / Thierry Claerr -- Remarques sur les bois monogramm�s dans les livres d'heures fran�ais au XVIe si�cle : la fortune des ""belles hystoires nouvelles"" de Thielman Kerver, de Paris (1519) � Rouen (vers 1593) / Ariane Bergeron-Foote -- Madeleine de Savoie and the Chantilly hours of Anne de Montmorency / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- Post-mortem inventories as a source for the production of manuscripts and printed books of hours / Mary and Richard Rouse. Subjects: Books of hours; Books of hours Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Books of Hours; History and criticism; Printing History.