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BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARIS
Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, [Paris], Thielman Kerver, 1549

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARIS

Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, text in French and Latin, gothic type, printed in red and black, printer's device on title and on verso of final leaf, 55 large woodcuts including Anatomical Man and calendar illustrations, numerous woodcut historiated initials throughout, tips of upper fore-corners to opening few leaves neatly repaired, light soiling to title and final leaf, modern red morocco [not in Bohatta], 8vo (170 x 110mm.), [Paris], Thielman Kerver, 1549

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Provenance: Albert Ehrman (Broxbourne Library), bookplate, and blue stamp ("AE"), and pencil inscription ("Horae on paper are uncommon. A.E"). Ehrman (1890-1969) was a diamond merchant who dated the start of his incunabula collection to "shortly after the end of the First World War, when we were living[...] at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire" following the acquisition of a Venetian incunable from 1492 in its original binding. In 1978, part of the collection was presented to the to the Bodleian Library, through the Friends of the National Libraries, by John Ehrman, and is now known as the 'Broxbourne Collection' (see Albert Ehrman, 'Contemporary Collectors II: The Broxbourne Library', The Book Collector, 3, 1954).

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