The Bedford Hours Download

Author: Janet Backhouse
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1561310212

The Bedford Hours (Medieval Manuscripts in the British Libr Series)

The Bedford Hours is one of Britain's major treasures. Download The Bedford Hours (Medieval Manuscripts in the British Libr Series) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. An outstanding example of late medieval manuscript art, it was written and illuminated in the early 15th century for John, Duke of Bedford, younger brother of King Henry V, and his wife, Anne of Burgundy. The principal artist of the leading Parisian workshop in which it was produced takes his name, the 'Bedford Master' from his English patron.
Expertly planned and professionally executed, The Bedford Hours is celebrated for the enormous range of its pictorial scheme, with many superb large miniatures in brilliant colours, and exquisite marginal details.
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