Author: PLUMMER, John
Title: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Description: New York, George Braziller - Pierpont Morgan, 2002. viii, 353 pp, reproduced from the two-volume illuminated manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Third printing ¶ Illustrating one of the great art treasures of the world, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript containing a series of some of the most beautiful illustrations of the Bible ever made. Many of the great scenes from the Old Testament and many more from the New Testament are included, besides the Stations of the Cross and portraits of the saints. The work of an unidentified Dutch master painter, the manuscript was made for Catherine of Cleves on the occasion of her marriage to the Duke of Guelders. Each page is accompanied by a descriptive and explanatory commentary by John Plummer. His introduction discusses the development of the Book of Hours as a liturgical form in general, and the history of the Cleves Hours specifically, and describes the place it holds in the history of Northern painting.

Keywords: illuminated man.