Horae: ad usum Romanum.

Accession number:

PML 565

Published:

A Paris : [Jean Du Pré (printer of Paris)], pour denis meslier, le xiiii. iour du moys de fevrier la[n] .M.cccc.iiiixx [et] .iv [14 February 1489/90].

Description:

[122] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 14 cm. (8vo)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf C10v: [Meslier's printer's device] Ces presentes heures furent achevees le xiiii. iour du moys de fevrier la[n] .M.cccc.iiiixx [et] .iv. pour denis meslier demeura[n]t aparis en la rue de la herpe a lenseigne du pilier vert.
Printed in Du Pré's types 19:83G, 23:66G, and 24:102G.
Signatures: ¹[a]-c⁸; a-h⁸ i-k⁴; A-B⁸C¹⁰: 122 leaves. Leaf ¹[a]1 unknown.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Almanac (leaf ¹[a]2v) includes years 1488-1508.
Woodcuts, woodcut borders on every leaf.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14 x 9.5 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: ¹[a]1 (unknown), c6, and A1.

Binding:

16th-century French gilt-tooled full brown calf over paper boards (14.5 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey, April 1926. Gilt stamp of Crucifixion on front board, Virgin and Child on rear. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; red edges. 2 fore-edge ties missing.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 17th/18th-century foliation in Hours (leaves b1-e7).

Provenance:

Unidentified shelf mark, 17th/18th century: Mag. Cam. Sinis. Inter. A-VI-24 (front endleaf 1 recto); unidentified shelf mark or purchase date: 13.2.25 (front endlead 1 recto); Giovanni Gallarini, Libreria C. Gallarini, Rome, stamp (front endleaf 1 recto); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 6.F (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 2023, to Bennett; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 2 verso) and bibliographical notes: No. 285, 7/12/97 and price code: way/-/- +com (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Books of hours

Calf bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Centerpieces (Designs)

Department:

Printed Books