Book of Hours
Book of Hours
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Guillaume Eustace, [c.1508, almanac for 1508-27].
A handsome Book of Hours, printed on vellum and fully coloured and illuminated. Two issues are recorded, with and without quire c. Copies at Paris and Brussels include it, while those at Lyons, Poitiers and the present copy omit it. Lacombe 171 (132 leaves); Brunet Heures 286 (124 leaves); Moreau Inv. Parisiennes I, 113; Van Praet 166 (124 leaves).
Printed on vellum, octavo (172 x 108mm). 124 leaves (of 132, see note). 15 full-page, one half-page, 13 small cuts and Eustace device, all coloured and illuminated, initials and line filler in liquid gold on pink or blue ground, yellow capital strokes (single wormhole in title, small marginal repair in title, at foot of final leaf and in g3). 20th-century brown morocco tooled in blind to a gothic design, gilt edges, slipcase. Provenance: vellum flyleaves with French 16th-century Barbier family records, from Michel to Marguerite Barbier – Bezborodko (armorial stamp on title) – Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov (1832-1909; lawyer, senator, member of the Duma, co-founder of the Imperial Russian Historical Society; monogram and shelf labels) –GB (Russian interlaced monogram stamp in blue on several leaves).
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Book of Hours
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Guillaume Eustace, [c.1508, almanac for 1508-27].
A handsome Book of Hours, printed on vellum and fully coloured and illuminated. Two issues are recorded, with and without quire c. Copies at Paris and Brussels include it, while those at Lyons, Poitiers and the present copy omit it. Lacombe 171 (132 leaves); Brunet Heures 286 (124 leaves); Moreau Inv. Parisiennes I, 113; Van Praet 166 (124 leaves).
Printed on vellum, octavo (172 x 108mm). 124 leaves (of 132, see note). 15 full-page, one half-page, 13 small cuts and Eustace device, all coloured and illuminated, initials and line filler in liquid gold on pink or blue ground, yellow capital strokes (single wormhole in title, small marginal repair in title, at foot of final leaf and in g3). 20th-century brown morocco tooled in blind to a gothic design, gilt edges, slipcase. Provenance: vellum flyleaves with French 16th-century Barbier family records, from Michel to Marguerite Barbier – Bezborodko (armorial stamp on title) – Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov (1832-1909; lawyer, senator, member of the Duma, co-founder of the Imperial Russian Historical Society; monogram and shelf labels) –GB (Russian interlaced monogram stamp in blue on several leaves).
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