Voordeelprijs The Brussels Horloge de Sapience – Peter Rolfe Monks

The book discusses principally the iconography and text of a mid 15th century copy of the mustical treatise Horloge de Sapience in the most sumptuously illuminated ms. known of the text.
Each of t he 36 illuminations is discussed in turn, with reference to their pictorial traditions, to the French textual matter and to a unique contemporary commentary, called the Déclaretiob des histoires.
The Déclaration is one of the earliest essays in art criticism to survive. The study is rendered useful for teachers and …