The Robert Lehman Collection IV. Illuminations, 1997, HC, New in Shrink-wrap.

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, et al. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.

English, New in Shrink-wrap, HC, 4to, 11 1/2" x 9", 256 pp.

ISBN: 9780691059716

Red cloth over board with gray pictorial dust jacket, featuring a full-color psalter illumination of "Adoration of the Magi" from ca.1235-50 to front panel, white lettering to front panel, white and black lettering to spine. 256 pp. Includes 250 illustrations, Preface and Acknowledgments by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Note to the Reader, chapters "Illuminations and the 'Art of Painting'" and "Northern Europe" by Sandra Hindman, Catalogue, chapter "Italy" by Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Francesca Saffiotti, Concordance, Bibliography, Index of Manuscripts Cited, and General Index. From the publisher: "Among the small but choice selection of illuminations catalogued here are a leaf painted for the Hours of Étienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet, the most celebrated French painter of the fifteenth century; a miniature by the "prince d'enluminure," Simon Marmion, painted for a Breviary for Charles the Bold and Margaret of York; and, among the Italian cuttings, a Last Judgment in an Initial C by the great Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco and an Adoration of the Magi by Francesco Marmitta that is accompanied by a letter attesting to its sixteenth-century papal provenance."