(HORAE B.M.V.) Heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir. Printer's large metalcut device on title (repeated at end), with depiction of Anatomical Man on verso; 20 full-page and 27 small metalcut illustrations; each text page within

(HORAE B.M.V.) Heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir. Printer's large metalcut device on title (repeated at end), with depiction of Anatomical Man on verso; 20 full-page and 27 small metalcut illustrations; each text page within metalcut historiated orornamental border. Small manuscript initials in gold on blue or orange ground throughout. [92] leaves. Bƒtarde type, 30 lines. PRINTED ON VELLUM. Large 8vo, old blind-tooled calf, rebacked, corners restored; full-page illustrations cropped in outer margins with occasional slight image loss; morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. (Paris: Gilles Hardouyn, 1509) E6000-9000 "At the end have been inserted by a contemporary hand, eight leaves written in gothic letter, red and black, and with illuminated initials. The matter forms an appendix to the Heures and consists of Les XV. ioyes de la glorieuse vierge marie, and les sept requestes de nostre seigneur. Added to these is 'Cette oraison qui sensuit fut trouee surle sepulcre de nostre dame en la vallee de iosaphat: et a telle vertuque toute personne qui la dira deuotement une foiz le jour, ou la portera sur luy, ne mourra en eaue, ne en feu, ne en battaile [etc.] .. .' This curious specimen of mediaeval superstitition is followed by two Latin prayers, De sainct iherosme anthienne; Des troys roys anthienne (i. e., the Magi), giving their traditional names; Jaspar [sic], Melchior, and Balthasar"-Fairfax Murray/French 270 (this copy)