Description
Exclusive facsimile limited edition containing 10 leaves from different manuscripts, titled Schätze des J. Paul Getty Museums and edited by Faksimile Verlag (2009) featuring:
- Edition details: Schätze des J. Paul Getty Museums – Lucerne or Munich: Faksimile Verlag, 2009
- Commentary: German description of each leaf
- Notes: the facsimile box fully meets the high standards of this collection, not only presenting the illuminated manuscripts of the Getty Museums in true-to-the-original facsimile plates as part of the series “Great Libraries of the World”, but also offering an impressive overview of the development of book art in the Middle Ages. The finest leaves taken from German, French, Italian, and Flemish volumes make this achievement possible. With ten magnificent facsimiles, each framed in a passe-partout, some of the outstanding masterpieces of the Ludwig Collection are also repatriated to Germany after more than a quarter of a century. All facsimile leaves of this box were illuminated with real gold, to match the original books.
- Case: leather
Leaves included in the box
- The three Marys at the tomb Sakramentary, Ms. Ludwig V 2, fol. 19v
- St. Matthew writing his gospel Evangeliary, Ms. Ludwig II 3, fol. 9v
- The creation of the world Stammheim Missale, Ms. 64, fol. 10v
- Announciation Miniature taken from a Psalter, Ms.4, singleton 1
- Initiale C: King David playing the bells Psalter, Ms. 66, fol. 105v
- Two fishers on a sea monster Bestiary, Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 89v
- The call to St. Peter and St. Andrew; Initial D: St. Andrew; Initial Q: St. Peter, Missal, Ms. 34, fol. 172a
- St. Michael fighting the demons Hours of Charles the Bold, Ms. 37, fol. 15v
- The Moderate and the Immoderate Fragment of the „faits et dits mémorables des romains“, Ms. 43
- Bathseba at her bath Miniature taken from Hours of Louis XII., Ms.79
About the J. Paul Getty Collection
Although J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) originally collected only antique art and paintings of European Old Masters, the holdings of illuminated and richly illustrated manuscripts in the Getty Museum of Los Angeles count among the most significant of their kind in the United States and among the greatest in the world. This is due to the outstanding quality of the copiously illustrated codices of Western provenance rather than to the number of medieval manuscripts the library contains.
These illuminated manuscripts distinctly represent the art of the Middle Ages in a relatively young institution, which nonetheless is one of the most important museums worldwide.
The Ludwig Collection
One hundred and forty-four painted manuscripts purchased in 1983 from the Aachen-based spouses Peter and Irene Ludwig form the core of the Getty Museum’s magnificent library.
The entrepreneur couple charged the most significant book dealer and manuscript antiquary of the 20th century, H.P. Kraus, to build up this collection in Germany.
Kraus then moved to New York in 1939 where he also helped the Pierpont Morgan Library purchase many of its greatest treasures, such as the Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
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