The Hours of Mary of Burgundy: Codex Vindobonensis 1857 Vienna Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek (Manuscripts in Miniature)

About this book

The present volume in the series reproduces The Hours of Mary of Burgundy Cod. Vind. 1857 in Vienna Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek. This beautiful book is among the most celebrated illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Written by Nicolas Spierinc one of the favourite scribes of the Burgundian Court its pages hold the key works of the Master of Mary of Burgundy the most famous Flemish illuminator of the 15th century. In the making of manuscripts artists were charged to stir the soul and dazzle the eye and in The Hours of Mary of Burgundy this is achieved as nowhere else. The complete manuscript is reproduced here in 380 pages of full colour.