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HORAE, LATIN, USE OF ROME. [Hore intemerate dive Virginis Marie, secundum usum ecclesie Romane]. [Paris: Jehan Poitevin, circa 1503].
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HORAE, LATIN, USE OF ROME. [Hore intemerate dive Virginis Marie, secundum usum ecclesie Romane]. [Paris: Jehan Poitevin, circa 1503].
8° (205 x 130mm.). PRINTED ON VELLUM. 94 leaves only (of 100, lacking π1, d5-8 and e8), gothic letter, 28 lines, 11 large metalcuts and 30 smaller cuts, ALL WITH CONTEMPORARY ILLUMINATION HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, each page of text with printed historiated borders of feasts and allegories, one- and two-line initials heightened with gold on blue and red ground. (Gathering aa loose, some leaves slightly soiled.) 17th-century maroon morocco, gilt border of floral roll-tool on covers, spine gilt in compartments, g.e. (rubbed, joints weak). Bohatta 776; Lacombe 133 (omitting final gathering of Seven Psalms in French); Fairfax Murray French 264.
8° (205 x 130mm.). PRINTED ON VELLUM. 94 leaves only (of 100, lacking π1, d5-8 and e8), gothic letter, 28 lines, 11 large metalcuts and 30 smaller cuts, ALL WITH CONTEMPORARY ILLUMINATION HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, each page of text with printed historiated borders of feasts and allegories, one- and two-line initials heightened with gold on blue and red ground. (Gathering aa loose, some leaves slightly soiled.) 17th-century maroon morocco, gilt border of floral roll-tool on covers, spine gilt in compartments, g.e. (rubbed, joints weak). Bohatta 776; Lacombe 133 (omitting final gathering of Seven Psalms in French); Fairfax Murray French 264.