[Incunabula and early 16th cent. books]. (Breviary for...

[Incunabula and early 16th cent. books]. (Breviary for the use of Fontevrault). Paris, Yolande Bonhomme, 1538, 5 parts in 1 vol., (6); CXLIIII; LII; (6); XXXIII lvs., printed in red and black in two columns, 1 full-p. woodcut showing the Annunciation, one 18-line woodcut showing Mary, one 12-line woodcut showing the Holy Trinity and the Four Evangelists, later calf, 4to.[*]

- Probably lacking the two first leaves (aa1 and 2); blank margins cut short; occas. old marginal annotations in pen and ink (cut short). Frontcover detached. Otherwise a fine copy.

= EXTREMELY RARE BREVIARY FOR THE USE FOR THE ABBEY OF FONTEVRAULT. The incipits for the parts: (Calendar); Hyemale tempus breviarij sanctiomonialium ordinis Fontebraldensis; Psalterium ordinatum per ferias secundum usum ordinis Fontebraldensis; Breve temporis Hyemalis divini oficij sanctimonialium ordinis Fontebraldensis; Quicumque libri huius possessor eo uti volet (...). Probably a UNIQUE COPY printed for the Benedictines of the Abbey of Fontevrault. Works from the library of Fontevrault are very rare because a large portion of the library was lost when the ship that carried the works to safety during the Revolution sank at sea. Yolande Bonhomme headed the Kerver workshop "à la licorne" between 1522 to 1557, most often under the name of her first husband, printer Pasquier Bonhomme (see Renouard, 1965, p. 45). Interestingly, she was also responsible for printing all liturgical texts for the Abbey of Fontevrault. Bohatta 1303. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.