Accession number
PML 126020
Published
Paris : Par Guillaume Anabat ... pour Gillet Hardouyn ... et pour Germain Hardouyn ..., [approximately 1505]
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf M6v: Ces p[re]se[n]tes heures a lusaige d[e] Ro[m]me tout au lo[n]g sa[n]s req[ue]rir: ont estes i[m]primees a Paris p[ar] Guillaume anabat i[m]primeur d[e]moura[n]t en la Rue sai[n]ct Jehan de beauuays pres les escolles de decret en le[n]seigne des Co[n]nis pour Gillet hardouyn Libraire demoura[n]t au bout du pont au cha[n]ge en le[n]sengne de la rose. Et pour germain hardouyn demoura[n]t deua[n]t le palais entre les deux portes a limage sai[n]cte Marguerite.
Renouard dates as not before 1505 based on Anabat's address and activity dates (1505-1510).
Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁶: 96 leaves.
Printer's mark of Gilles Hardouyn on t.p. (Silvestre 54).
This edition has 16 full-page woodcuts, (including printer's mark on t.p.); illustrations within ornamental borders, each page of text within historiated borders.
Full-page woodcuts found in this edition on leaves: A1r (printer's mark), A8v, B3r, B8v, C1r, C7v, D4r, D5r, D6r, D8v, E3r, E5v, E8r, F3v, G2v, H2v, M2v.
Text in Latin, leaves a2r-8r with almanach for years 1500-1520 and calendar in French.
Printed on vellum.
Signature on leaf B1 is printed sideways.
Renouard dates as not before 1505 based on Anabat's address and activity dates (1505-1510).
Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁶: 96 leaves.
Printer's mark of Gilles Hardouyn on t.p. (Silvestre 54).
This edition has 16 full-page woodcuts, (including printer's mark on t.p.); illustrations within ornamental borders, each page of text within historiated borders.
Full-page woodcuts found in this edition on leaves: A1r (printer's mark), A8v, B3r, B8v, C1r, C7v, D4r, D5r, D6r, D8v, E3r, E5v, E8r, F3v, G2v, H2v, M2v.
Text in Latin, leaves a2r-8r with almanach for years 1500-1520 and calendar in French.
Printed on vellum.
Signature on leaf B1 is printed sideways.
Description
[96] leaves : illustrations (metalcuts) ; 19 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand-illuminated initials and woodcuts. Two manuscript leaves (former pastedowns), one in Latin and one in French, bound before and after the printed text, respectively; the Latin text is a series of prayers to St. Marcouf.
Provenance
Bishop of Orleans, inscription: "L'Éveque d' Orleáns J.B.," perhaps Jean Brumault de Beauregard (app. 1823-ret. 1839) (front pastedown); Freeman C.S. Roper (1819-1896), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Bernard Quaritch, collation inscription (rear pastedown); John F. Fleming, Inc., Jan. 1961, no. 91; E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Binding
16th-century blind rolled calf over wooden boards. 2 clasps, missing.
Classification
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