Printed on vellum.- Hore intemerate virginis marie secundum usum Romane curie incipiunt feliciter

Printed on vellum.- Hore intemerate virginis marie secundum usum Romane curie incipiunt feliciter (title from foot of B3r), text in Latin & French, collation: A-M8, 86 ff. (of 96, lacks title and 9 other ff.), 31 lines, Gothic type, 6 (of 13) large and 30 (of 31) small engraved illustrations, all hand-coloured and heightened with gold, all but one of the large illustrations within ornate flora and fauna border illuminated in colours and gold, initials and line ends in gilt on red or blue grounds, ruled throughout in pale red, no borders to text ff., signature-marks printed at foot, B1&2 small wormhole within text, I1 2 wormholes in text, L7r majority of small illustration erased, penultimate f. small piece missing from lower margin, final f. piece missing from lower margin, small piece trimmed from upper blank corner, and text verso rubbed, some staining (mostly at beginning and end), occasional spotting, lightly browned, later vellum endpapers, 19th century red velvet over boards, joints split, but holding firm, backstrip lifting away, some fraying, rubbed, 8vo (215 x 129mm.), [Paris], [Antoine Chappiel for Germain Hardouyn], [24 November, 1503].*** A rare edition, here rendered ‘deluxe’ by the colourists of the workshop of the Hardouyn brothers (for a similar copy see the Tenschert collection (Vol.1, 39)). USTC records only four copies, and this is the only copy we can find at auction. Two editions were issued on the same day; one with and without borders. Literature: Renouard / Moreau, ICP, 1503, I, 56; Lacombe 132; Bohatta 769.