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 Book of Hours of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
A masterpiece of the late Middle Ages.
© Biblioteca Nacional de España, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Fifteenth Century
Size 11 x 15 cm
650 pages, embellished and illuminated by the most celebrated Flemish painters of the age.
87 large-format miniature scenes and 583 with quarter-page designs depicting vegetation, animals and insects.
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