Exposition à New York du plus beau des manuscrits hollandais : les Heures de Catherine de Clèves.

Dückers (Rob) and Priem (Ruud), The Hours of Catherine of Cleves : Devotion, Demons and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century : catalogue of the exhibition, New York, the Morgan Library and Museum, January 22 - May 2, Gent : Ludion Editions NV, 2010, 426 p., ill. - US $85.00

Commissioned by Catherine of Cleves around 1440 and illustrated by an artist known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves, the work is an illustrated prayer book containing devotions that Catherine would recite throughout the day. The manuscript's two volumes have been disbound for the exhibition, which features nearly a hundred miniatures.

The exhibition also includes manuscripts illuminated by both predecessors and contemporaries of the Master of Catherine of Cleves, who is considered the finest as well as the most original illuminator of the northern Netherlands.

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