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Les évangiles des dimanches et fêtes de l'année.

Accession number
PML 141662-64
Published
Paris : L. Curmer, 1864.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Part of the illustrations, also a plate, in v. 3 are mounted photographs.
Vols. 1 and 2 are illuminated throughout. They were originally issued in one hundred monthly parts.
Vol. 3 has added title within ornamental border: Appendice aux Évangiles, par Léon Curmer, 1864. Title reads: Les évangiles des dimanches et fêtes de l'année, suivis de prières à la sainte Vièrge et aux saints; texte revu par m. l'abbé Delaunay ... The volume is divided into three parts, separately paged; the first has special t.-p. with ornamental border: Les frères Wiérix: La vie de la sainte Vièrge. La divine enfance, La passion de Notre-Seigneur Jésus Christ, Les saints et les saintes; the second consists of "Notices" on illuminated manuscripts, illuminators and similar subjects; the third, in two sections, has special half-titles, within ornamental borders: Description de l'ornementation des Évangiles.
Description
3 v. : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full red morocco tooled in gilt by A. Segouin.
Classification
Department