Accession number
PML 195846
Published
Parisiis : Veneu[n]t ... apud Gulielmum Merlinum ... ca. 1550.
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund and funds from the Frances L. Koltun Bequest, 2012.
Notes
Collation based on Van Praet and the cataloging record for a copy in the Bibliothèque Mazarine.
The Morgan has eight leaves only, containing the canon of the mass, signatures t²-v⁶ printed on vellum.
In this copy the full-page woodcuts of the crucifixion on t1v and God the Father on t2r have been illuminated. Other copies of this edition have different woodcuts on these leaves, God the Father with a triangular pediment on top, the crucifixion with the motto "Absit michi gloria ..." (as described by Bernard). The woodcuts in this copy are in elaborate strapwork frames and contain the GM initials of the publisher (see the uncolored versions in a 1555 Salisbury missal printed for Merlin, PML 1045). The strapwork frame for the crucifixion is identical in design to a frame used in the manuscript Hours of Claude de Guise, dated shortly before 1550 (see the reproduction in Thierry Crépin-Leblond, Livres d'heures royaux [Ecouen & Paris, 1993], p. 42). Artist: Master of François de Rohan or follower (see Myra D. Orth, "The Master of François de Rohan: a familiar French Renaissance miniaturist with a new name," Illuminating the book: makers and interpreters. Essays in honor of Janet Backhouse, Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick, eds., [London, 1998], pp. 69-91).
The Morgan has eight leaves only, containing the canon of the mass, signatures t²-v⁶ printed on vellum.
In this copy the full-page woodcuts of the crucifixion on t1v and God the Father on t2r have been illuminated. Other copies of this edition have different woodcuts on these leaves, God the Father with a triangular pediment on top, the crucifixion with the motto "Absit michi gloria ..." (as described by Bernard). The woodcuts in this copy are in elaborate strapwork frames and contain the GM initials of the publisher (see the uncolored versions in a 1555 Salisbury missal printed for Merlin, PML 1045). The strapwork frame for the crucifixion is identical in design to a frame used in the manuscript Hours of Claude de Guise, dated shortly before 1550 (see the reproduction in Thierry Crépin-Leblond, Livres d'heures royaux [Ecouen & Paris, 1993], p. 42). Artist: Master of François de Rohan or follower (see Myra D. Orth, "The Master of François de Rohan: a familiar French Renaissance miniaturist with a new name," Illuminating the book: makers and interpreters. Essays in honor of Janet Backhouse, Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick, eds., [London, 1998], pp. 69-91).
Description
cxxxvii, [9], [99], 44 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 34 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of André Hachette.
Binding
Originally in a half-calf binding, which had been mounted in a frame. Now disbound.
Classification
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