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Located in New York, Paris, and Chicago, Les Enluminures specializes in manuscripts and miniatures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The gallery also handles rings and jewelry from the same periods. It organizes four or five exhibitions a year, some in collaboration with other dealers and some traveling to other locations, and these are often accompanied by catalogues.
Illuminated manuscripts are books that have been written and decorated by hand in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Before Gutenberg invented printing around 1450, all books were entirely handmade, and even after the beginning of printing, the manuscript persisted in popularity.
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For three hundred years, from c. 1250 to c. 1550, the Book of Hours was the bestseller of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Kings and queens, princes and princesses, doctors, lawyers, merchants, housewives, and even children, who learned to read from them, owned Books of Hours.
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