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Escorial Hours of Charles V Facsimile Edition

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The luxuriously decorated Escorial Hours of Charles V is a personalized Christian prayer book commemorating the journey Charles I, King of Spain, took to Germany in 1520 for his coronation as King of Germany, having been elected Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V the year before. Produced by the siblings Clara and Robert de Keyser in Ghent, it is a beautifully rendered work with one full-page and six smaller miniatures in the naturalistic style practiced in the Netherlands. The full-page miniature, which depicts the Apotheosis of Charles V, and many of the initials include Charles's heraldry.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Escorial Hours of Charles V": Libro de Horas de Carlos V facsimile edition, published by Testimonio Compañía Editorial, 2000

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Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.
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Libro de Horas de Carlos V

Madrid: Testimonio Compañía Editorial, 2000

  • Commentary (Spanish) by Ruiz Asencio, José M.; Ordax, Salvador A.; Zalama, Miguel A.; Guardo, Alberto A.
  • Limited Edition: 980 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Escorial Hours of Charles V: 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.

Facsimile and commentary volume issued in a case.

Binding

Hand-stitched and bound. Bound in brown goatskin stamped in gold and black on both sides.

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