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Accession number:

PML 129974

Published:

Paris : [Jean Du Pré] p[er] a[n]thoine verard, le deuziesme iour de septembre .M.cccc. quatrevingtz et cinq [2 September 1485].

Description:

[120] leaves : illustratsions (woodcuts) ; 12.5 cm.

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of the B. H. Breslauer Foundation and on the B. H. Breslauer Foundation Fund, the Curt F. Bühler Fund, the L. C. Harper C-1 Fund, and the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2007.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Colophon, leaf I8v: Ces presentes heures ont este acheueez le deuziesme iour de septembre .M.cccc. quatrevingtz et cinq [et] faictes i[m]p[ri]mer p[er] a[n]thoine verard libraire demoura[n]t a paris a lymaige sainte iehan levangeliste sur le pont n[ot]re dame ou au palaiz au p[ri]mier pylier devant la chapelle ou on cha[n]te la messe messeigneurs les p[er]side[n]s.
Printing attributed to Jean Du Pré in GW. Otto Schäfer catalogue attributed to Jean Le Rouge (in Chablis or Troyes). These sources mistakenly transcribe the imprint date in the colophon as 12 September.
Printed in De Pré's types 18:71G and 18*:71G.
Signatures: [1-2⁸]; a-d⁸; AA, B-H⁸; [I]⁸: 120 leaves.
44 woodcuts, with repetitions.
For typographical evidence supporting the attribution to Jean Le Rouge see Monceaux, Les Le Rouge de Chablis, pp. 116-119.
For an account of the woodcuts and a reassessment of the Jean Du Pré attribution see Tenschert, ed., Horae B.M.V., vol. 4, p. 1392.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12 x 8.4 cm.

Binding:

Seventeenth-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (12.5 x 9 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Printer's waste (unidentified edition of Cicero) as board liners; decorative endband; sprinkled edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and underlining. Inscriptions: Important feasts added to calendar in red. Contemporary prayer (leaf H8v). Bird drawn into the woodcut of St. Apollonia (leaf G8v).

Provenance:

Unidentified symbol/monogram: M/heart (leaf [1]/1r); James Rutherford, probably Scottish, 16th century (?related to John Rutherford, active 1560, see Early Bookowners in Britain), inscription, in purple ink: "Libris Jacobi Ruderfaird" and "Qui sc[r]ipsit scriptum capu[t] eius sit bene (male) dictus et nomen scriptor[is] iacob[us] e[st] plenu[s] doloris" (leaf [1]/1v-2r) and Ex libri cypher (leaf D6r); James H., 16th century, initials: I H and inscription: "Re me James [?] h[????]" (leaf b8r) and "Per me Jacobi Ham[leaf trimmed away]" (leaf E7v); George Harold Hay (1893-1967); his sale, Christie's London, 28 April 1966, lot 102, to Breslauer; H.P. Kraus, acquired from Breslauer, 18 May 1966; Otto Schäfer, no. 564, purchased from Kraus, 1967; Schäfer sale, Sotheby's London, 28 November 2007, lot 31; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased as the gift of the B. H. Breslauer Foundation and on the B. H. Breslauer Foundation Fund, the Curt F. Bühler Fund, the L. C. Harper C-1 Fund, and the Gordon N. Ray Fund, Nov. 2007.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Books of hours

Vellum printings (Printing)

Printed waste (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books