A lavishly illuminated medieval Book of Hours, which set the world auction record for illuminated manuscripts when it sold in 1999 for nearly $13.4 million, will be back on the block Wednesday.
Christie’s will offer the Rothschild Prayerbook, often considered the most important illuminated manuscript in private hands, in New York. A member of the Dutch imperial court probably commissioned the 150-page book, made in Ghent or Bruges…
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