Accession number
PML 584
Published
[Paris] : [André Bocard], pour Antoine Vérard, xiiii daoust 1500 [i.e. not before 1503]
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Imprint from colophon, leaf dd8v: Ces p[re]sentes heures a lusage de Paris furent achevees le .xiiii. iour daoust mil cinq cens Pour Anthoine verard libraire demoura[n]t a Paris devant la rue neufue nostre dame a lymage saint Jehan. ou au palais devant la chapelle ou len cha[n]te la messe de messieurs les presidens.
See Verard, Bibl., no. 253 has same colophon. This is a really a reprint of this edition, later than September 1503, Cf. Macfarlane.
The type (97B, doubtfully assigned to Baligault in BMC) is given to Bocard by CIBN S-270. Dated by Macfarlane from the address: see his note, GW's and that of Coq(Bordeaux), p. 57 n.1, for other editions printed for Vérard and dated on the same day.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ c-h⁸; aa-dd⁸: 92 leaves.
Almanac for 23 years, 1497-1520, leaf a1v.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy not included in Checklist (ChL).
See Verard, Bibl., no. 253 has same colophon. This is a really a reprint of this edition, later than September 1503, Cf. Macfarlane.
The type (97B, doubtfully assigned to Baligault in BMC) is given to Bocard by CIBN S-270. Dated by Macfarlane from the address: see his note, GW's and that of Coq(Bordeaux), p. 57 n.1, for other editions printed for Vérard and dated on the same day.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ c-h⁸; aa-dd⁸: 92 leaves.
Almanac for 23 years, 1497-1520, leaf a1v.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy not included in Checklist (ChL).
Description
[92] leaves : illustrated (metalcuts and woodcuts) ; 21 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Illuminated initials, gilt on red/blue ground and line-fillers. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified French sale (or bibliographic catalogue?), no. 6 (pasted to front pastedown, with following item pasted over it); Sotheby's London, Library of the Gentleman, 27 Nov. 1896, lot 226, to Pickering (for Bennett?) for £56 (description pasted to front pastedow); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 27, 27/11/96 and price code: le/-/- +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding
16th-century French (Lyon?) gilt-tooled calf over paper boards (20.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Central stamp of Crucifixion, cornerpieces of arabesque ornament. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
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