Heures de nostre dame en francoys et en latin.

Accession number: 
PML 1060
Published: 
Imprimees a Paris : pour Anthoine verard, [before 25 October 1499].
Description: 
[112] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the de Forest collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf [A]1r: LAmour de dieu chascun bon crestien / Doit acquerir en son co[m]mencement en desira[n]t p[er]seuerer en bie[n] / Affin quil puisse acquerit sauvement / Et appiquer doit son entendement / A le servir au soir et au matin / en recordant ses heures deignement / Translatees sont au plus pres du latin. / Heures de nostre dame en francoys et en latin Imprimees a paris nouvellement.
Imprint from colophon, leaf O8r: Cy finient les heures en francois Imprimees a Paris pour Anthoine verard libraire demourant sur le po[n]t nostre dame a lymage saint Jehan levangeliste ou a palays au p[re]mier pilier devant la chapelle la ou on chante la messe de meseigneures les presidens.
Dated by Torchet. Goff dated to ca. 1500. PML Checklist has pub. date: [1498].
Printed in Vérard's types 4*:84G and 11:97G.
Signatures: [A], B-O⁸: 112 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
9 woodcuts.
Capital spaces, with guide letters. Printed marginalia.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.9 x 9.8 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (15 x 10.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet for Yemeniz. Gilt-tooled blue goatskin pastedowns and marbled paper endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Title from ISTC: Horae: ad usum Romanum.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel (front endleaf 2 recto) and binding; his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 83 to Didot for 1125 francs; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, Paris, part I, 6 June 1878, lot 214; Ernest Quentin Bauchart (1830-1910), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, Paris, 14 Feb. 1881, lot 15; George Beach de Forest; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the de Forest collection, 1899.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Books of hours
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books