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[Horae: ad usum Aeduensem].

Accession number
PML 126012
Object title

[Horae: ad usum Aeduensem].

Published

[Paris] : Jehan Du Pre, [approximately 1488]

Description

[168] leaves : illustrations (metalcuts) ; 13.5 cm

Credit line
Bequest of Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint city from ISTC. Du Pré's device, leaf [1]/1r. Date based on almanac (1488-1508), leaf [1]/1v.
Printed in Du Pré's types 19:83G, 23:66G, and 24:102G(?).
Signatures: [1-3⁸; A]-S⁸: 168 leaves.
Format undetermined, only known copy on vellum.
"Hic i[n]cipi officiu[m] b[ea]te marie s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum Eduensem," leaf [A]8v.
Metalcut illustrations and borders. Leaf [A]5r with metalcut of donor praying to Virgin and Child, "Mater dei meme[n]to mei" in scoll.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13 x 8.8 cm.
PML copy with burn to upper part of leaves [1]/1-3, with loss of text.
Binding
17th/18th-century French mottled calf over paper boards (13.5 x 9 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French gilt initials on alternating red and blue ground and rubricated with alternating red and blue initials, paragraph marks, and line fillers, and yellow capital strokes. Illustrations not colored. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Edouard Rahir (1862-1924), booklabel (front pastedown); Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown), no. 995; E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995), shelf mark: SP1 (rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Classification
Century
Department