22 150
31
●
(CATHOLIC LITURGY.)
Ces presentes heures sont a lusaige de Romme
toutes au long de requerir.
Use of Rome. Calendar dated 1534-48. Title overpainted in
colors and gold with architectural frame enclosing cherubs bearing unidentified coat of
arms, with calligraphic title and date (“m.d.xxxiiii. 5 april.”) supplied in gold above and
below;
FIFTEEN MINIATURES IN COLORS AND GOLD
freely painted over metalcut illustra-
tions, each within painted architectural frame in gold with red penwork decoration; 1- and
2-line initials in gold on blue or red ground throughout. [100] leaves. Bâtarde type, 28
lines. Red-ruled border filled in with gold on each page.
PRINTED ON VELLUM
. 8vo,
156x94 mm, late 17th-/early 18th-century black morocco, spine attractively gilt with
monogram F. T. in bottom compartment, surface wear on covers, front joint worn, short
crack at bottom of rear joint; slight flaking of paint on title, occasional minor marginal soil-
ing, contents otherwise generally quite clean. Bound at end are 9 vellum leaves of
additional prayers in Latin and German written in italic and Fraktur script in 18th-century
hand.
[Paris: Germain Hardouyn, 1534]
[15,000/25,000]
HANDSOME COPY
of a Parisian printed Book of Hours with contemporary illumination, in an
exceptionally scarce edition. Bohatta 1170 describes, apparently at second hand, the copy in a
private collection; RELICS and Moreau-Renouard IV, 1027 cite only the copy in Bohatta.
This edition not in NUC, OCLC, USTC, or French Vernacular Books.
[
SEE ALSO DOUBLE
-
PAGE ILLUSTRATION PRECEDING LOTS
1-3]