Description
Completed circa 1474, Sébastien Mamerot’s lavishly illustrated manuscript is the only contemporary document to describe several centuries of French crusades, when successive kings tried to seize the Holy Land. Jean Colombe, the medieval illuminator best known for his work on the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, is the principal artist of its 66 exquisite miniatures.
Les Passages d’Outremer (The Expeditions to Overseas) comprises 277 parchment folios, illustrated by Colombe and the finest calligraphers of the medieval era, and now resides in the French national library. The battles, burials, coronations and processions depicted in the illustrations come to life before our eyes and create a forceful image, as well as a compelling read, of this centuries-long campaign of religious fervor and epic journey.
Part of the Bibliotheca Universalis series.
- Authors: Thierry Delcourt, Fabrice Masanès and Danielle Quéruel
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Taschen, 2016
- 760 pages, 7.7" x 5.5"
- ISBN: 9783836554459