Printed Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century Italy

The Texts, the Books, and the Survival of a Long-Lasting Genre

by Cristina Dondi

Book cover: Printed Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century Italy

Hardback (Published)

(February 2017)

ISBN: 9788822264688

Price: $115.00

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A detailed analysis of the production, distribution, and use of the 74 Books of Hours’s editions surviving today in 198 copies preserved in European and North American libraries. Special attention is devoted to the transmission of the texts in print, the definition of a stemma editionum, illustrations, the comparison with the manuscript tradition, and with the printed production of the later centuries. With ample use of documentary and historical bibliographical evidence, full transcription of all the calendars, and 88 plates in colour.

  • By (author) Cristina Dondi