The hours of Catherine of Cleves

Article number 10155536

This study presents the celebrated fifteenth-century manuscript known as the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, one of the masterpieces of Northern European illumination. Edited by John Plummer for The Pierpont Morgan Library, the volume examines the artistic achievement, iconography, devotional context and historical significance of the manuscript created for Catherine of Cleves, Duchess of Guelders. The book reproduces numerous miniatures and marginal decorations, highlighting the richness of late medieval Dutch manuscript art and the extraordinary imagination of the Master of Catherine of Cleves.