Horae: ad usum Lugdunensem.

Accession number:

PML 18733

Published:

A Paris : [Philippe Pigouchet] pour Simo[n] vostre, .xv. iour de frevier. La[n] mil.CCCC.iiiixx. et xvi [15 February 1496/97].

Description:

[88] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts, metalcuts) ; 17 cm. (8vo)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l8v: Ces presentes heures a lusage de Lion furent achevees le .xv. iour de frevier. La[n] mil.CCCC.iiiixx. et xvi. Pour Simo[n] vostre libraire demoura[n]t a paris en la rue neuue nostre dame a limage sainct Jehan levangeliste.
Pigouchet's printer's mark, leaf a1r.
Printed in Pigouchet's types 2:64G, 3:80G, and 4:130G.
Signatures: a-l⁸: 88 leaves.
Paper format: Median octavo.
Almanac for years 1488-1508, leaf a1v.
Leaves a1r and c1r signed l for Lyon use.
Woodcuts and metalcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.2 x 11 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1.

Binding:

16th-century German blind-rolled calf over thin wooden boards (18 x 12 cm.); rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red L-brackets. Annotations: No notations in text. Contemporary German foliation.

Provenance:

Illegible German inscription (leaf a2r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariaat, Dec. 1908.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Books of hours

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books