Vatican Book of Hours from the Circle of Jean Bourdichon - Facsimile Editions & Medieval Manuscripts

The book of hours Vat. Lat. 3781 has neither title nor name. Who created it, for whom it was intended and where and when it was crafted are information that still remain unclear; there are no written documents about its history or provenance.
Thanks to the two coats of arms of the front and back covers of the manuscript, it is possible to recognize a Pope and a Cardinal who adorned the book of hours with the current binding: Pius VI Braschi (1775-1799) and Cardinal Francisco Zelada, prefect of the Pontifical library.
Codex 3781 survived Napoleon’s campaign that saw the abduction of several documents from the Vatican Library.
Later on, scholars were led to believe that the book was altered, to say the least, by Pope Paul V (1605 and 1621) who is believed to have gifted it to the Vatican Library.
The style of the miniatures and the landscapes present in the calendar, allow conjectures on the place and date of creation. The book could have been created in France, possibly in the Limoges area, during the 15th century.
The use of foreground, realism, and perspective in the illuminations are features related to master Jean the Bourdichon and his workshop.

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Facsimile edition (Offizium der Madonna - Stundenbuch des Jean Bourdichon) published by Belser Verlag in 1984.

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