Les Enluminures

Les Enluminures PARIS- 1 rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, Paris
CHICAGO- 980 North Michigan Ave. www.lesenluminures.com
www.textmanuscripts.com

Suite 1330, Chicago

Please contact us to arrange an appointment (Open 9-5 pm) or visit us at the Paris gallery during exhibitions.

Third Thursdays in New YorkMiss us? We’re still in New York.Beginning May 21st, Les Enluminures will host private appoin...
15/05/2026

Third Thursdays in New York
Miss us? We’re still in New York.

Beginning May 21st, Les Enluminures will host private appointments every Third Thursday of the month (except August).

Want to try on a ring, leaf through a manuscript, admire a miniature, ask our advice about a work of art – or simply chat over a cup of coffee? Come visit us in our apartment, in the same building. Informal and tailored to your interests.

Email us with your preferred time (and desired artwork or reason for visit) 11AM to 6 PM for the upcoming Third Thursdays, May 21st.

Out of town? Save these dates and plan ahead: June 18, July 16, September 17, October 15, November 19, and December 17.

Opening Wednesday 6th of May, from 6-8 PM“You might just as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life; fo...
05/05/2026

Opening Wednesday 6th of May, from 6-8 PM
“You might just as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life; for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Laelius De Amicitia
Our latest exhibition sets out to explore and illustrate how themes of friendship and love emerged as pertinent and as important during the Middle Ages and Renaissance as we find them today. Drawing together a tightly-curated selection of multi-disciplinary artworks, we consider how these manuscripts, single leaves, jewelry, and works of art bear witness to different forms of “gages d’amitié.”
Exhibition Dates: May 7 - July 31, 2026
Les Enluminures Paris
21-22 Galerie de Montpensier

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day Four! Today is the last day to visit Booth E5 and catch this spectacular antiphonal...
03/05/2026

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day Four! Today is the last day to visit Booth E5 and catch this spectacular antiphonal manuscript! ✨📖❤️

Large-scale sixteenth-century Choir Books from Spain are not rare. However, this one presents a number of truly exceptional features. Inscriptions written in Spanish tell us where and for whom it was made, who wrote it, and, most unusually, how many quires it contains and how much it cost. Sponsored by a powerful noble family, the counts of Cabra, for a Dominican convent of nuns that housed four of their daughters, including the founding abbess, the manuscript also credits the counts of Cabra with commissioning a new musical setting for the feast of Catherine of Siena.

Dominican Antiphonal, Summer Part
-In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
-Spain, Baena, 1522

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📍New York Antiquitarian Book Fair, Booth E5. Park Avenue Armory, New York.
⏰Sunday, May 3rd: 12-5pm
📅April 30th - May 3rd, 2026.

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day Three! Come to Booth E5 and see the incredible flora of this manuscript 💚📖🌿Because ...
02/05/2026

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day Three! Come to Booth E5 and see the incredible flora of this manuscript 💚📖🌿

Because Missals were heavily used, sometimes over centuries, they are rarer than many other types of liturgical manuscripts, and they rarely survive in good condition. Indeed, they were the very backbone of medieval religious ritual, providing the words that priests said and the gestures they made in every Mass of the year. This Missal is in beautiful condition, presenting extensive and lovely Bohemian illumination.

Missal (Use of Wrocław?)
-In Latin, illuminated manuscript on paper
-Czechia, (Prague?), 1475-1500

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📍New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Booth E5. Park Avenue Armory, New York.
⏰Saturday, May 2nd: 12-7pm
📅April 30th - May 3rd, 2026

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day Two! Swing by Booth E5 to see this gorgeous floral manuscript 💐📖💛Newly identified, ...
01/05/2026

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day Two! Swing by Booth E5 to see this gorgeous floral manuscript 💐📖💛

Newly identified, the volume marks one of fewer than a handful of works apparently copied by King Henry VII’s librarian Quentin Poulet, and it was compiled for Margaret Tudor in advance of her marriage to James IV of Scotland. The gift book reveals Henry VII’s concerns for his young daughter, leaving England to spend the rest of her life running a foreign, often antagonistic, court and provides important new insights into women’s history and the history of queenship.

ANONYMOUS, Journal of the Estates General of Northern France in 1356 and the Address given to Margaret of Anjou on her Entry to Rouen in 1445
-In French, illuminated manuscript on parchment
-England and Southern Netherlands, c.1497-1500

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📍New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Booth E5. Park Avenue Armory, New York.
⏰Friday, May 1st: 12-8pm
📅April 30th - May 3rd, 2026

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day One! Come visit us at Booth E5 to see this manuscript's stunning shades of blue 💙📖✨...
30/04/2026

New York Antiquitarian Book Fair Day One! Come visit us at Booth E5 to see this manuscript's stunning shades of blue 💙📖✨

Husbands to their wives, students to their parents, between lovers, from one leader of a city to another, the letters in this manual of epistolary models cover a wide variety of circumstances. Manuscripts by the thirteenth-century rhetorician Guido Faba on the art of letter writing are slowly gaining scholarly interest, and the two works preserved here, printed only in rudimentary nineteenth-century editions, deserve modern critical study. Dating close to the author’s lifetime, this attractive manuscript is an early copy of these texts, which are not known in any other examples in North America.

GUIDO FABA, selections from Summa dictaminis and Dictamina rhetorica
-In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
-Northern France (Paris?), c. 1240-1260

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📍New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Booth E5. Park Avenue Armory, New York.
⏰Thursday, April 30th: 5-9pm
📅April 30 - May 3, 2026

We are delighted to introduce 24 'new' manuscripts just added to our Text Manuscripts Site.Click the link in our bio to ...
24/04/2026

We are delighted to introduce 24 'new' manuscripts just added to our Text Manuscripts Site.

Click the link in our bio to view these items; there is something for everyone.

Please join us at the 66th edition of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair 📖✨📍Park Avenue Armory, New York (Booth E5)📆 Apr...
22/04/2026

Please join us at the 66th edition of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair 📖✨
📍Park Avenue Armory, New York (Booth E5)
📆 April 30 - May 3

Les Enluminures is delighted to return to the 66th New York Antiquarian Book Fair. This year, we are pleased to be exhibiting in a larger corner stand, located to the left of the fair’s main entrance. To mark the occasion, we will present an expanded selection of beautiful Books of Hours, illuminated manuscripts, miniatures, and text manuscripts, including many just added to our inventory from our Spring Text Manuscripts Update.

Hope to see you there!

Thank you to Brian Boucher and ARTnews for featuring us in your article about EXPO Chicago 2026! It was a delight having...
12/04/2026

Thank you to Brian Boucher and ARTnews for featuring us in your article about EXPO Chicago 2026! It was a delight having you visit our booth and getting to tell you about the Grammont Missal.

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EXPO Chicago Day 4! Last chance to come to Booth 311 and take a look at this stunning portrait pendant ✨💙💎This double-si...
12/04/2026

EXPO Chicago Day 4! Last chance to come to Booth 311 and take a look at this stunning portrait pendant ✨💙💎

This double-sided pendant features a miniature portrait in watercolor on vellum showing the bust of a lady in three-quarter profile gazing at the viewer against a bright blue background: She is wearing a black dress with high-necked bodice, red bows and white ruff. Her brown hair parted in the center forms a heart-shaped hairdo. The small crown and jewels appear to be gold with pearls and rubies and in her ear is a drop pearl.

Double-sided Pendant with Portrait Miniature of Françoise de Daillon, Lady of Malicorne
-France, 1575
-Attributed to the workshop of Benjamin Foulon (c. 1550-1612)
-Gilded bronze, watercolor on parchment
-Dimensions 7.5 x 6.0 cm.

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📍EXPO Chicago, Booth 311, Navy Pier Festival Hall, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL
📆 April 9th - 12th, 2026

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