Pfändtner, Karl-Georg
Christmas Illuminated

Prestigious Manuscripts from around the Fifteenth Century in the Bavarian State Library Collection. [On the occasion of the special exhibition of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library), Munich, Germany, first presented at Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC, November 17, 2017 - February 18, 2018].

The catalog presents the Christmas story as observed in European book illumination from around the 15th and 16th centuries in German, Flemish, French, and ltalian manuscripts. They belang to the most beautiful and valuable codices of this epoch held by the Bavarian State Library, and present illustrations of the Christmas story from the annunciation to the flight to Egypt. XVII,73 Seiten mit 50 Farbabb., Großformat, broschiert (Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh 2018) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint