ITALIAN TOP RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS reproductions in 3 CD-ROM + books SET #2

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ITALIAN TOP RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS reproductions in 3 CD-ROM + books SET #2:
$80.00

HERE FOR SALE ARE THE TOTAL REPRODUCTION IN CD-ROM OF THREE
OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MANUSCRIPT CONSERVED IN ITALY
FROM THE COLLECTION OF \"I tesori delle biblioteche italiane\"
SET #21 - LE PETITE PRIERES DE RENEE DE FRANCE, around 1517 - MODENA, BIBLIOTECA ESTENSE - LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED

This little book of meditation shares a common destiny with the turbulent life of its owner. Illuminated in Paris around 1517, the prayer book was commissioned to aid in the religious education of the young princess Renée de France, daughter of the French king Louis XII and Anne of Brittany.

Renée later took her prayer book to Ferrara where she married Ercole II, Duke of Este in 1528. Long before her marriage, Renée had shown an interest in the rising movement of Protestantism. Her relations with Huguenots and Calvinists who took refuge at her court in Ferrara led to the burning of all her books in 1554, because the inquisition considered them heretic.

Only a few catholic books escaped the fire, among them our Flowers Prayer Book. After the Duke’s death, Renée left Ferrara in 1560 and retired to Montargis Castle in France. For reasons unknown, she had to leave her little prayer book behind in Italy where it remained in the Este library until the beginning of the 18th century.

2 - LIBRO D\'ORE DI ALFONSO D\'ESTE, 1505-1510 - LISBOA / ZAGREB LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED by Matteo da Milano

This codex, known as \"the last really extraordinary creation of the Ferrarese illuminators\", was commissioned by Duke Alfonso I to Matteo da Milano. It belonged to the Biblioteca Estense in Modena until 1859, when it was relocated by the Estensi - along with the Bible of Borso and the Breviary of Ercole d’Este, which together made up a trilogy of illuminated masterpieces of the highest excellence - and were conserved as patrimony of the House of Austria-Este in exile in Vienna. The body of the manuscript, without the 14 detached illuminations of Zagreb, was bought by the Armenian collector Gulbenkian for his Foundation and is now housed in Lisbon.

3 - LIBRO DI DEVOZIONE DI ALBERTO DI BRANDEBURGO, 1534 - MODENA, BIBLIOTECA ESTENSE - LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED

Only a few illuminated manuscripts of the late Middle Ages radiate such harmony as the Glockendon Hours, written in German language and executed in 1534. The master of these wonderful miniatures is Nikolaus Glockendon, the most famous descendant of a family of artists based in Nuremberg. The work was made for Albert of Brandenburg, one of the most eminent princes of the Church during the Reformation period.

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