Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 1429

Hours of Henry II Facsimile Edition

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The Hours of Henry II is a Christian prayer book made in Paris around 1543-1547. Its innovative Old Testament picture cycle unfolds in fourteen full-page miniatures. It also boasts thirty-seven heraldic initials with the arms of France and the Medici and Dinteville families. The Dinteville family commissioned the book, later presenting it to Henry II, King of France, upon his coronation in 1547 with the addition of two full-page frontispiece miniatures, a miniature of Henry II miraculously healing a sufferer of scrofula, and prayers specific to the king's use.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Hours of Henry II": Livre d'Heures de Henri II de France facsimile edition, published by CM Editores, 2022

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Manuscript book description compiled by Erin K. Donovan.
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Livre d'Heures de Henri II de France

Salamanca: CM Editores, 2022

  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Hours of Henry II: 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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