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The Book of Hours of Afonso I d'Este marks the start of the online interactive tour of some of the manuscript books that Calouste Gulbenkian collected.

You can use search-engines to consult individual folios, iconographic themes or reconstructions of the sequence of all the folios. You can also enlarge all the folios so that can enjoy every detail of these magnificent illuminations.


	» Manuscript Online » Book description » Credits The digital elaboration, except for the binding, was made by Roberto Bini on the occasion of the facsimile edition of the Book of Hours of Afonso I d'Este for Il Bulino edizione d'arte, authorised by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Croation Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria. Binding, Photo: Carlos Azevedo

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