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HORAE -- Book of Hours, use of Rome, Paris: Gilles Hardouyn, [c.1521; calendar for 1521-1540].
8° (141 x 106mm), 97 (of 104) leaves, PRINTED ON VELLUM AND ILLUMINATED, 23 lines, gothic type, large printer's device on first page, 9 large and 13 smaller woodcuts, all overpainted in gold and colours by a contemporary hand, the large miniatures within an architectural frame, illuminated outer floral border supplied by hand, initials in gold on blue or pink ground (some slight wear to colouring), 18th-century calf (rebacked). Provenance: G.M. de Ponchier (contemporary title inscription); Thibault (early inscription on title verso).
Lacombe 317 (text at end of C5r varies); Van Praet Bib. du roi, 137.
8° (141 x 106mm), 97 (of 104) leaves, PRINTED ON VELLUM AND ILLUMINATED, 23 lines, gothic type, large printer's device on first page, 9 large and 13 smaller woodcuts, all overpainted in gold and colours by a contemporary hand, the large miniatures within an architectural frame, illuminated outer floral border supplied by hand, initials in gold on blue or pink ground (some slight wear to colouring), 18th-century calf (rebacked). Provenance: G.M. de Ponchier (contemporary title inscription); Thibault (early inscription on title verso).
Lacombe 317 (text at end of C5r varies); Van Praet Bib. du roi, 137.