Accession number
PML 197910
Published
A Paris : Pour Guillaume Iulien, demeurant pres le College de Cambray a l'enseigne de l'Amitié, 1556.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from leaf AA1r, printed in red and black.
Imprint from title page.
Colophon (leaf d4r): Ci finent ces presentes Heures de nostre Dame, a l'vsage de Romme, en latin, & en François, nouuellement imprimees à Paris, par Iean Lescallier, demeurant rue des Postes, au Pauillon.
Printed by Jean Lescallier as a joint venture Thielmann II Kerver for Guillaume Julien.
Another issue of this edition was printed by Thielmann II Kerver for Julien with a different woodcut and Kerver's imprint on title page.
On leaf AA2v is an almanac for years 1556-1572.
Signatures: AA⁸; B-R⁸ S⁴; a-c⁸ d⁴.
13 woodcuts with typographic borders. Lescallier's printer's device on leaf AA1r (Renouard, Marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles, 490). Initials and rubrics printed in red.
Title in French without border.
Woodcuts include: Crucifixion (leaves B7v, K1r, O7v, R3v), Pentecost (C7r, K4r), Annunciation (C8r), Visitation (E4v), Nativity (F4r), Annunciation to the Shepherds (F7v), Adoration of the Magi (G3r), Presentation in the Temple (G6v), Flight into Egypt (H2r, d4v), Coronation of the Virgin (H6v), David's choice of punishments (K7r, a1r), Job on the dung heap (M1r), Gabriel appearly to St. Joseph in a dream (S4v).
Imprint from title page.
Colophon (leaf d4r): Ci finent ces presentes Heures de nostre Dame, a l'vsage de Romme, en latin, & en François, nouuellement imprimees à Paris, par Iean Lescallier, demeurant rue des Postes, au Pauillon.
Printed by Jean Lescallier as a joint venture Thielmann II Kerver for Guillaume Julien.
Another issue of this edition was printed by Thielmann II Kerver for Julien with a different woodcut and Kerver's imprint on title page.
On leaf AA2v is an almanac for years 1556-1572.
Signatures: AA⁸; B-R⁸ S⁴; a-c⁸ d⁴.
13 woodcuts with typographic borders. Lescallier's printer's device on leaf AA1r (Renouard, Marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles, 490). Initials and rubrics printed in red.
Title in French without border.
Woodcuts include: Crucifixion (leaves B7v, K1r, O7v, R3v), Pentecost (C7r, K4r), Annunciation (C8r), Visitation (E4v), Nativity (F4r), Annunciation to the Shepherds (F7v), Adoration of the Magi (G3r), Presentation in the Temple (G6v), Flight into Egypt (H2r, d4v), Coronation of the Virgin (H6v), David's choice of punishments (K7r, a1r), Job on the dung heap (M1r), Gabriel appearly to St. Joseph in a dream (S4v).
Description
[140, 28] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 15.5 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Richard Bostock, signature (AA1r); Clarence S. Bemens, bookplate (front pastedown); John Ford Reed, inscription on Bemens's bookplate; monogram: I(or T?)B, 1963 (leaf L1r); Sotheby's London, 27 July 1981, lot 127; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, March 2018.
Binding
19th-century blue morocco with gilt turn-ins by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges.
Classification
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