Lot n° 431
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[HOURS PRINTED FOR THE USE OF ROUEN]. Ces presentes heures a - Lot 431
[HOURS PRINTED FOR THE USE OF ROUEN]. Ces presentes heures a lusage de Rouen // sont au long sans Riens requerir auecques les heu//res de la Conception Et plusieurs aultres
suf//frages Nouuellement Imprimees a Paris // pour Jehan burges Pierre huuin & Jacques cousin. S.l.n.d. [Paris, Antoine Vérard for Jehan Burges, Pierre Huvin & Jacques Cousin, circa 1503]. In-12 (108 x 178 mm), dark green morocco, double cold-stamped fillet framing the boards, spine decorated with cold boxes, gilt edges (Arnaud).
120 ff. in sixteen quires signed : [a]-c8, d4, e-q8 & s4.
The Easter table ("Almanach pour .xviii. ans") covers the years 1503 to 1520.
The entire work is printed on vellum in gothic type (littera cursiva) and ruled, with 22 lines per page. Texts in Latin and French (for the table and the captions of the calendar vignettes).
Publisher's mark on title and verso of last leaf, anatomical figure & ELEVEN OTHER LARGE FIGURES woodcut, three of them illuminated; wide ornate border framing each page; initials, some illuminated.
The large figures are as follows: ff. a8 v° (st John & the poisoned cup), b4 v° (the kiss of Judah), d8 v° (the tree of Jesse), e1 (the Annunciation, illuminated), e7, f4 v° (Christ on the cross), f5 v° (Pentecost), f6 v° (the Nativity, illuminated), g3 (the annunciation to the shepherds), g6 v° (the adoration of the Magi), h1 v° (the Circumcision), h4 v° (the massacre of the Innocents), i1 (the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin), i5 (Uriah and David, illuminated), k8 (the resurrection of Lazarus), n8 (the Holy Trinity), q3 v° ("This is the noble chapel of Nostre
Dame") & s1 (the Immaculate Conception).
Manuscript bookplate on the title.
HOURS to the USAGE of ROUEN ENLUMINATED & ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED.
A fine copy of these HOURS PRINTED on VELIN LEATHER & ILLUMINATED.
Lacombe, 136; Bohata, 1339; Macfarlane A. Verard, 349.
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