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The Livre de la Chasse (Book of the Hunt) was written by Gaston Fébus, count of Foix and expert huntsman. For many years this treatise was famous for both the quality of its hunting lessons and its extraordinary illuminations: a masterpiece of early-fifteenth-century manuscript production in Paris, and one of the very few educational books to be illustrated as lavishly as a Bible.
Besides the lessons it contains, this treatise also presents hunting as a redeeming exercise enabling hunters to go straight to Heaven by endowing them with an upright body and mind. The different renowned artists who worked on this manuscript placed their art at the service of Gaston Fébus’s desire to teach, thereby setting out not merely a lesson of hunting but a lesson of life
CONTENTS:
From the editor to the reader
Manuel Moleiro
Foreword
Claude d’Anthenaise (Director of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature)
Gaston Fébus. A lord of light, a lord of darkness
Claudine Pailhès (Former director of the Archives Départamentales de l’Ariège)
The production and history of Livre de la Chasse manuscripts
Yves Christe (Profesor emérito, Université de Genève)
Français 616 and its illuminators
Inès Villela-Petit (Art historian, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Iconography of the Livre de la Chasse. The excellence of Français 616
Yves Christe
Livre de la Chasse
Pascal Bergerault (Université de Tours)
Livre des Oraisons
Pascal Bergerault
Bibliography
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Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOqLa9juxvk&list=PLGapGlViYRH0rKAb4dC7HWSzDf0uDoWw_&index=2
French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D22n7EydfnY&list=PLGapGlViYRH0rKAb4dC7HWSzDf0uDoWw_&index=3
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M. Moleiro is the most prestigious company in the world specialized in the reproduction of codices, maps and works of art usually made on parchment between the 8th and 16th centuries in the form of illuminated books. The techniques employed in reproducing the codices, combined with the wisdom and skilled craftsmanship of our trade, enable us to remain very faithful to the original. Bound in leather tanned using the methods of years past and reproduced on special, hand-made paper; our codices reproduce all the nuances of the paintings, parchment, gold and silver leaf etc. A M. Moleiro codex is, therefore, more than a facsimile book, it is an exact replica, a “First, unique and unrepeatable edition”. To date we have created exact replicas of bibliographic gems belonging to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Bibliothèque nationale de France, The British Library, National Library of Russia, Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, The Morgan Library & Museum... Our editions are unique and unrepeatable and limited to 987 copies individually numbered and accompanied by a notary’s statement confirming their exclusive nature. Each “First, unique and unrepeatable edition” is protected by a leather case and accompanied by a commentary volume written by experts in medieval history, the history of art, codicology and other pertinent areas enabling the illuminated manuscripts to be fully understood. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/moleiroeditor Press (select the different languages of the web): https://www.moleiro.com/es/prensa.htm
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- Orginal LanguageEnglish, French, Spanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788416509270
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatBook
- Pages496
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions335x245 mm
- IllustrationFull-color
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