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The Horas de la Virgen Maria is a remarkably preserved Flemish manuscript that was composed around 1450 in the Bruges area. It consists of 112 pages on vellum, written in Gothic script and bound by a luxury cover signed in 1948 by the great Spanish bookbinder Brugalla.

The manuscript is divided into 8 parts, which correspond to the Canonical Hours (matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline), and each part begins with a full-page miniature surrounded by sumptuous initials and floral borders.

The Horas de la Virgen Maria was composed during a flourishing period of European art, namely the 15th century, when Bruges had become the economic and artistic hotbed of Flanders.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Cervera Vera Hours": Horas de la Virgen María facsimile edition, published by Círculo Científico, 2005

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Horas de la Virgen María

Madrid: Círculo Científico, 2005

  • Commentary (Spanish) by Docampo, Javier; Basteiro, Felisindo
  • Limited Edition: 250 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Cervera Vera Hours: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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