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Hours of Alfonso d'Este Facsimile Edition

Offiziolo Alfonsino

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Commissioned by Alfonso I d’Este, the third Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio, the Book of Hours was created by Matteo da Milano, a notable Italian illuminator of the 16th century and a disciple of Bramante and Birago. Each section of the codex begins with a folio featuring a historiated initial letter, surrounded by decorative margins. These margins include gilded or dark backgrounds, embellished with pearls, cameos, gemstones, flowers, fruit, animals, and grotesques. Notably, Folio 94r, for the Office of the Dead, includes an initial depicting Death as a skeleton in female attire, gazing into a mirror, symbolizing human mortality.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Hours of Alfonso d'Este": Offiziolo Alfonsino facsimile edition, published by Il Bulino, edizioni d'arte, 2002

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Offiziolo Alfonsino

Modena: Il Bulino, edizioni d'arte, 2002

  • Commentary (Italian) by Milano, Ernesto; Cvetnic, Sanja; Fidalgo, Manuela; Di Pietro, Paola Lombardi; Malacarne, Giancarlo
  • Limited Edition: 999 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of one or more portions of the original document, Hours of Alfonso d'Este: 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.
The facsimile is an unabridged reproduction of the two fragments of the Offiziolo Alfonsino that was once an individual document. This facsimile edition was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Culture and coordinated by the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, who intended to reconstruct - at least virtually - this antique heritage. This facsimile edition was printed with 8 colors and two kinds of gold. The half leather case of the edition can be personalized. The 288-page commentary volume includes the unabridged transcription of the manuscript.

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Gold framed red leather, as the original in Lisbon.

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