15th-century illumination at its peak at auction
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A French collector is now the proud owner of this exceptional work, whose illuminations are reminiscent of the Duc de Berry's Belles Heures. Vers 1420. Livre d’heures à l’usage de Paris, en latin et en français, manuscrit enluminé sur vélin, 28 enluminures, 24 vignettes dans le calendrier, 244 feuillets, reliure plein veau fauve, 20,7 x 15,5 cm (détail).Adjugé : 768 800 € After a long tussle between three telephones, two English-speaking and one French, it was the latter who finally won this Book of Hours for the use of Paris, executed around 1420, for €768,800, up from a high estimate of €100 ,000 (studied in Gazette no. 38). The quality of the 244-leaf illuminated manuscript on vellum, with
