Leading expert in Medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination, Les Enluminures offers for sale original illuminated manuscripts, books of hours, miniatures and works of art from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. To hold and to turn the pages of a manuscript is to touch hands directly with medieval Europe.
Visitors are welcome in our Paris, Chicago and New York locations by appointment.
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PagesBooks of Hours Spring Update 2024
Les Enluminures offers one of the largest and most wide-ranging inventories of Books of Hours in the world. Our Spring Books of Hours Update gathers a group of impressive and... Read more -
EventsSandra Hindman named "Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”
January 1, 2024 Read more -
EventsSalon International du livre rare & des arts graphiques
Paris June 14 - 16, 2024 Read more -
Video entriesUnderstanding Books of Hours
March 24, 2021 Les Enluminures invites you to enjoy “Understanding Books of Hours” to gain a better understanding of these illuminated prayerbooks. In this thirty-minute video, Sandra Hindman introduces and delves into these... Read more -
PublicationsThe Wonderland of Books of Hours
Online Publication. Text by Sandra Hindman March 3, 2023 Sitting on the bank by her sister, who is reading, Alice ponders “and what is the use of a book … without pictures or conversations.” You know what comes next.... Read more -
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