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lum, perhaps hand-colored, and elaborately bound. In Jean Pichore: Buchmaler, Graphiker und Verleger in Paris um 1500 (2004), Zoehl catalogues many illumi- nated manuscripts by Pichore and other members of his workshop, and also catalogues his printed books of hours and compares them to works by his contemporaries. Zoehl’s work, incorporating information from Tenschert’s catalogue mentioned below, includes 255 illustrations. Nicolas Barker pub- lished a valuable analysis of aspects of the Parisian production of printed books of hours in a review of a catalogue of a large collection formed by Heribert Tenschert: “The Printed Book of Hours,” The Book Collector, Vol. 53, No. 3 (2004).
On December 7, 2010 a superb manuscript produced in Paris circa 1508, of Plutarch’s Vies de Romulus et de Caton d’Utique in the French translation of Simon Bourgoyn, with 54 paintings by Jean Pichore, the Master of Philippe de Gueldre and another artist, sold at Sotheby’s London for 505,250 GBP (roughly $799,000). Spectacular illuminated manuscript books of hours continued to be produced as luxury volumes well into the middle of the sixteenth century, including a few illuminated by great artists. One of the greatest and most famous examples is the Farnese Hours illuminated by Giulio Clovio in 1546, preserved in the Morgan Library and Museum.
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