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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A la louenge de dieu et de la tressaincte [et] glorieuse vierge Marie et a ledification de tous bo[n] catholiques ont este co[m]mencees ces prese[n]tes Heures a lusaige de Romme ...

Accession number
PML 593
Published
[Paris] : Gillet Hardouyn et Germain Hardouyn, [ca. 1509?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Printed on vellum.
PML copy missing leaf leaf l2.
Description
[88] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary illuminated woodcuts, borders, and initials.
Provenance
Unidentified shelfmark: D./316. (front endleaf 1 verso); Jean-Jacques Olier, founder of Seminaire de St. Sulpice, two inscriptions dating the the work to 1508-09 based upon the printer's mark and donation to his nephew, 22 Jan. 1731 (front endleaf 2 verso and 3 recto), with an engraved portrait of Olier (front endleaf 3 verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 6, 5/5/94 (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding
Red morocco with green inlays gilt-tooled in design of flowers, stars, and circles and an unidentified chiffre.
Classification
Department