London, UK. 09th June, 2019. Firsts - London's Rare Book Fair at Battersea Park. The Hours of Gabrielle d’Estrées, Use of Paris, illuminated manuscript in Latin and French on vellum.Northern France (Paris), c. 1480.Almost certainly used by Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress of King Henri IV of France, in her devotions: with an inscription of the seventeenth-century on the inside of the front pastedown, describing this book as “manuscrit a[ve]c armes de Gabrielle d Estrees provenent de chateau de Prince de Condé”. Credit: Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News
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London, UK. 09th June, 2019. The London's Rare Book Fair, The Hours of Gabrielle d’Estrées, Use of Paris, illuminated manuscript in Latin and French on vellum.Northern France (Paris), c. 1480.Almost certainly used by Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress of King Henri IV of France, in her devotions: with an inscription of the seventeenth-century on the inside of the front pastedown, describing this book as “manuscrit a[ve]c armes de Gabrielle d Estrees provenent de chateau de Prince de Condé”.The political marriage of Henri IV to Margaret of Valois in 1572, was made with the hope of uniting Catholics and Protestants at the height of the French Wars of Religion, but was far from happy – and Henry as a Protestant Huguenot was even excluded from the religious part of his own marriage ceremony and had to wait outside the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Offered by Sokol Books for £57500.00Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News