Printed on vellum.- Hore intemerate virginis marie secundum usum Romanum cum pluribus...
Printed on vellum.- Hore intemerate virginis marie secundum usum Romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam in gallico quam in latino, collation: A-M8 (sig. C mis-signed), 83 ff. (of 96, lacking title and 12 other ff.), 29 lines, Gothic type, 12 (of 18) large and 34 small engraved illustrations after the Master of Anne of Brittany (or Master of the Rose of the Apocalypse of Sainte-Chapelle), ornate engraved historiated borders (including rustic and hunting scenes, grotesques, and scriptural subjects), initials and line ends in gilt on red or blue grounds, later ink pagination, occasional early ink marginalia, L2 very small piece from head, affecting part of border, some staining or soiling (the former mostly at start), occasional spotting, lightly browned, 17th century panelled calf, gilt, covers with diamond-shaped centre-piece flanked by the initials 'I B', rebacked in later gilt calf in compartments, lacking ties, corners worn, little worming, some staining, rubbed and marked, 8vo (194 x 124mm.), [Paris], [Thielman Kerver for Gilles Remacle], [1 December, 1502].
⁂ Rare edition, attractively printed on vellum. USTC recording seemingly only three copies (BL, BnF & Bibliothèque Abbé Grégoire; Renouard adding one at Chantilly).
Provenance: ‘Hic liber attinet ad me Hugonem Marie Theotem. 1689.’ (ink inscription to front pastedown). ‘I B’ (initials to binding).
Literature: Renouard, ICP, I, 1502, 61; Bohatta 737; Lacombe 111.
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Printed on vellum.- Hore intemerate virginis marie secundum usum Romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam in gallico quam in latino, collation: A-M8 (sig. C mis-signed), 83 ff. (of 96, lacking title and 12 other ff.), 29 lines, Gothic type, 12 (of 18) large and 34 small engraved illustrations after the Master of Anne of Brittany (or Master of the Rose of the Apocalypse of Sainte-Chapelle), ornate engraved historiated borders (including rustic and hunting scenes, grotesques, and scriptural subjects), initials and line ends in gilt on red or blue grounds, later ink pagination, occasional early ink marginalia, L2 very small piece from head, affecting part of border, some staining or soiling (the former mostly at start), occasional spotting, lightly browned, 17th century panelled calf, gilt, covers with diamond-shaped centre-piece flanked by the initials 'I B', rebacked in later gilt calf in compartments, lacking ties, corners worn, little worming, some staining, rubbed and marked, 8vo (194 x 124mm.), [Paris], [Thielman Kerver for Gilles Remacle], [1 December, 1502].
⁂ Rare edition, attractively printed on vellum. USTC recording seemingly only three copies (BL, BnF & Bibliothèque Abbé Grégoire; Renouard adding one at Chantilly).
Provenance: ‘Hic liber attinet ad me Hugonem Marie Theotem. 1689.’ (ink inscription to front pastedown). ‘I B’ (initials to binding).
Literature: Renouard, ICP, I, 1502, 61; Bohatta 737; Lacombe 111.
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