Accession number:
PML 571
Published:
A Paris : [Philippe Pigouchet,] pour Simo[n] vostre, .xv. iour de frevier. La[n] mil.CCCC.iiiixx. et xvi [15 February 1496/97].
Description:
[84] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts, metalcuts) ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l4v: Ces presentes heures a lusage Da[n]giers furent achevees le .xv. iour de frevier. La[n] mil.CCCC.iiiixx. et xvi. Pour Simo[n] vostre libraire demoura[n]t a paris en la rue neuue nostre dame a limage sainct Jehan levangeliste.
Pigouchet's printer's mark, leaf a1r.
Printed in Pigouchet's types 2:64G, 3:80G, and 4:130G.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l⁴: 84 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Almanac on leaf a1v for years 1488-1508.
Woocuts and metalcuts.
Text signed aa on leaves a1r and c1r for Angers use.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 16.3 x 10.6 cm.
Binding:
Modern full reddish brown goatskin over paper boards (17 x 11.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: No notations in text. NNMP
Provenance:
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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