The Crusades: Les Passages d'Outremer    -1474   
  Fr. 5594     Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, France)   


   Style    :   Gothic 
   Language    :   French 
   Provenance:    Monastic community of Kells; Archbishop Ussher, crown possession under Charles II 
   Content:    History of the French participation in the Crusades in the Holy Land; letter from Bayezid II to Charles VIII (added later) 
   Previous owners:    Diane de Poitiers, Duchess of Valentinois; Diane de La Marck; Charles-Henri, Count of Clermont-Tonnerre; Cardinal Jules Mazarin 
   Leatherbound:    Burgundy   L   eather 
   Pages    :   572   pages  
   Dimensions    : A4 , 210 x 297cm , 8.3" x 11.7" 

   Limited to just 10     Deluxe     leather-bound copies     , bound by a master bookbinder/old medieval manuscript expert with 40 years of expertise in book restoration     .  
   Commissioned by Louis de Laval, illuminated by none other than Jean Colombe: the greatest medieval source on the history of the Crusades  
  Completed circa 1474, Sébastien Mamerot’s lavishly illustrated manuscript is the only contemporary document to capture four centuries of crusades, when successive kings tried to capture the Holy Land.   Jean Colombe, the medieval illuminator best known for his work on the Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry is the principal artist of its 66 exquisite miniatures. 

  Mamerot’s manuscript was dedicated to his patron Louis de Laval, governor of Champagne, whose inspiration was the Christian equivalent of extremist jihad—a xenophobic holy war with its origins in a Papal appeal by Urban II. 

  Les Passages d’Outremer (The Expeditions to Outremer) was illustrated by Colombe and the finest caligraphers of the medieval era. 

  Handbound in   Deluxe   Burgundy Leather,   which faithfully reproduces the covers of the original manuscript.   and limited to   10   copies only. 

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