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Obsecro. O itemerata, co[n]ditor celi en francoys avec deux aultres oraysons devotes.

Accession number
PML 198457
Published
[Lyon?] : [no printer], [approximately 1530]
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2019.
Notes
Signature: A⁸: 8 leaves.
Conditor celi is translated to French as "Sire dieu createur de ciel et de la terre..."
The two additional prayers are Protestation de la foy (leaves A7r-8r) and Orayson de notre dame moust devote (leaves A8r-v, see Sonet).
3 woodcuts: a small Virgin and Child on the title page (leaf A1r), and 2 versions of a standing Virgin and Child surrounded by a rosary (leaves A1v and A3v).
Description
8 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 14.5 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Pierre Revoil (1776-1842), his sale, Catalogue de livres anciens...de M. le Chevalier Revoil, Paris, 19 March 1834, lot 37; passed through a series of Librairie Morgand catalogues 1878-1900, including Morgand et Fatout, Répertoire de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout (Paris, 1878), no. 39, Répétoire Méthodique de la libraire Damascène Morgand, Prem. Partie (Paris, 1893), no. 210, Bulletin mensuel, no. 49, February 1900, no. 40301; François Chandon de Briailles, bookplate, no. 290 (front endleaf 1 recto), perhaps inherited from his father, Raoul Chandon de Briailles (1850-1908), not in Chandon sales in Paris, 2003-04; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Les Enluminures on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, Nov. 2019.
Binding
19th-century French quarter calf with marbled paper sides over paper boards.
Classification
Department