Gabriel and the Hour Book (Yesterday's Classics)

by Evaleen Stein

Book Overview

Relates the story of the making of an "hour book" as a wedding gift from King Louis of France to Lady Anne of Brittany and the good fortune it brought to little Gabriel, Brother Stephen's color grinder. Inspired by the bunch of violets and cuckoo-buds Gabriel brings into the workroom, Brother Stephen conceives a new idea for an illuminated border. Instead of painting the border with scrolls and birds and flowers in the conventional way, he would...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599150425
• ISBN13: 9781599150420
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"