Accession number:
PML 15433
Published:
[Paris] : Op[er]a ac arte Nicolai hygma[n]. Impensis honesti viri Symonis vostre: co[m]morantis ibide[m] in vico novo. In intersignio sancti Iohannis evangeliste, [1519]
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description:
[120] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Almanac from 1520 to 1536.
Colophon: Qui cum patre & spiritu sancto viuis et regnas deus. ...
Printed in red and black.
Rubrics, prayers, and a table in English.
Signatures: a-p⁸.
Vostre's device at head of title. With 13 full page and 25 other woodcuts and borders to all pages.
Without music.
Binding:
16th-century French (Paris?) calf, with gold-panel of decorative strapwork stamped and painted, the name "Katherine Brovn" in gold in the central compartment of the front and back covers. The same strapwork panel is found on British Library, Davis 500 and Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, Rés 357302 and several other bindings identified as produced in Paris, about 1550.
Provenance:
Katherine Broun (Brown?, presumably an English owner since the text is for Sarum use), decorated binding and painted name on title page, 16th century; Librairie Damascène Morgand, no. 31181; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the "Rahir Fifty," 1907.
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