Foreword
William Griswold and Mark Jones
Preface
Thomas Kren and Mark Evans
Jean Bourdichon and the Hours of Louis XII
Janet Backhouse
Plates
Looking at Louis XII’s Bathsheba
Thomas Kren
The Manuscript Painting Techniques of Jean Bourdichon
Nancy Turner
The Rediscovery of a Royal Manuscript
Mark Evans
Appendix: A Reconstruction of the Hours of Louis XII
Thomas Kren and Peter Kidd
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
About the Authors

Thomas Kren has been curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles since 1984. He co-organized the exhibition Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, the catalogue for which he and Scot McKendrick were awarded both the Eric Mitchell Prize and the International Eugene Baie Prize.

Mark Evans is senior curator of paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His principal expertise is in the field of fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century painting and manuscript illumination. In 2005, his survey volume The Painted World: From Illumination to Abstraction was published by the V&A.

The late Janet Backhouse (1938–2004) was curator of illuminated manuscripts at the British Library until her retirement in 1998. A wide-ranging specialist in the history of manuscript illumination, she was dedicated to introducing the subject to a wider public through exhibitions and publications that also helped to make the collections of the British Library better known: Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts, The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art, The Lindisfarne Gospels, The Luttrell Psalter, The Sherborne Missal, The Bedford Hours, and The Isabella Breviary.

Nancy Turner is associate conservator of manuscripts in the Department of Paper Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she has cared for the collection since 1984. Her areas of special interest include the technical study of painting techniques and materials of Western illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.