Accession number:
PML 1063
Published:
Imprimees a Paris : [Nicolas Higman?] pour Guillaume Godard, [approximately 1517]
Description:
[112] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 18 cm
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes:
Almanac for 1518-1527.
Imprint from colophon, leaf O8v: Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me/ auec loffice de la conception nostre dame [et] plusieurs aultres suffraiges nouuellement imprimees a Paris pour Guillaume godard libraire demoura[n]t audict lieu sur le pont au Cha[n]ge deua[n]t lorloge du Palays a lenseigne de L'ho[m]me sauuaige.
Signatures: [A-B]-O⁸.
Printer's mark, leaf a1r.
15 large and 64 small woodcuts.
PML copy printed on vellum,
Binding:
16th-century French dark brown calf, gilt tooled in a foliate Grolieresque pattern with name "Agnes Polvs" stamped on sides; in black morocco case.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Woodcuts and capitals illuminated. Painted line border on each page.
Provenance:
Agnes Pole, gold-tooled name on binding and illuminated armorial with name "Agnes Polvs (Polus)" in banderole (leaf a1r, painted over Godard's printer's mark), but the armorial has not been identified with a known family; Marmaduke Burton Dawnay, Langley (1777-1851), stamp (front endleaf 1 verso); Sotheby's London, Valuable Books sales, as the "Property of a Lady," 16 March 1907, lot 439 to Maitland for £81 (must have been returned) and relisted 31 May 1907, lot 244 to Reid for £56; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Nov. 1907.
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