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he Turin-Milan Hours are one of the greatest documents in the cultural history of the Western world. You will rarely encounter a manuscript that has been - and still is - the object of so much speculation and adulation.

The magnitude of the achievement represented by Jan van Eyck’s panel paintings is well known. Even during his lifetime, it was generally acknowledged that his painting techniques surpassed everything that had gone before. We need only think of the "Ghent Altarpiece", "Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife" or other famous paintings which he completed.

Discussion on the illuminated manuscript however, has brought a totally new dimension to what is already a fascinating issue. For we can justifiably assume that his ideas, the foundation of a completely new painting style, were first expressed in this manuscript. The studies on which this assumption is based come to another exciting conclusion, that this manuscript contains both the earliest and last known examples of Jan Van Eyck’s work.

No description can even begin to convey the magic of a series of miniatures which document the gradual transition to a new kind of painting. This is what The Turin-Milan Hours is able to do.

The Fine Art Facsimile Edition is an exact replica of the wonderful original, accurate to the minutest detail: all 252 pages (size 203 x 284 mm), the 28 leaves with miniatures, together with the pages containing text in Latin. Bound like the original, in green velvet with exquisite blind embossing the facsimile is a unique opportunity to experience The Turin-Milan Hours in all its magnificence.

A wide ranging commentary volume (in English, German, French or Italian) with contributions by well known scholars accompanies the edition and is the key to understanding the work which is limited to 980 copies world-wide

A documentation kit containing 2 sample pages, in the original size, from the Turin-Milan Hours Fine Art Facsimile Volume, plus an illustrated, 16 page information brochure, is available for $US75.