"Illuminating the Medieval Hunt" Exhibition
The Morgan Library & Museum
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The most influential medieval treatise on hunting was "Livre de la chasse," written by Gaston Phoebus between 1387 and 1389. The forty-six surviving manuscripts and numerous printed editions of the text testify to its popularity. The Morgan Library & Museum is fortunate in possessing one of the two most luxuriously illustrated manuscripts; the other, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, was made at the same time and also contains eighty-seven miniatures. Both were made in Paris about 1407 and were probably commissioned by John the Fearless. Since the manuscript had to be disbound— for reasons of conservation and the preparation of a facsimile— the Morgan has decided to exhibit as many leaves with miniatures as possible, providing the public a unique opportunity to "walk" through the manuscript as well as to turn the pages of the facsimile.
[Image: Gaston Phoebus "Hunting Party Pursuing Wild Boar (detail)" (ca. 1407) Courtesy of Faksimile Verlag Luzern]
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from April 18, 2008 to August 10, 2008