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BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROME Hore divine virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum, ILLUMINATED AND PRINTED ON VELLUM, [Paris], Egydii et Germain Hardouyn, [1518] image 1
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BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROME
Hore divine virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum, ILLUMINATED AND PRINTED ON VELLUM, [Paris], Egydii et Germain Hardouyn, [1518]

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROME

Hore divine virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum, ILLUMINATED AND PRINTED ON VELLUM, 28 lines within red and gold border, 88 leaves, gothic letter, with capitals and spaces heightened in liquid gold on alternate blue and red backgrounds, 10 full-page illuminated woodcuts heightened in gold (borders a little oxidised), numerous border decorations or smaller woodcuts also illuminated, printer's device on verso of last leaf, late eighteenth/early nineteenth century morocco gilt, tooled with fleur-de-lys, a.e.g. with floral decoration, rebacked [USTC 144904], 8vo, [Paris], Egydii et Germain Hardouyn, [1518]

Footnotes

ILLUMINATIONS: f.1 Hercules pursuing Nessus and Deianira; f.1v Anatomical Man; f.11r St John in Patmos; f.16v The events at Gethsemane; f.46r Nativity; f.50v The Annunciation to the Shepherds; f.56v The Presentation in the Temple; f.83v David and Bathsheba; f.94r Job on the Dung Hull; f. 132 The Annunciation.

Provenance
Verney Family, bookplate; Bradby Hall, bookplate.

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