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Horae: ad usum Romanum.

Accession number
PML 580
Object title

Horae: ad usum Romanum.

Published

A Paris : [Philippe Pigouchet,] pour Simo[n] vostre, .xxviii. iour de Juing Lan mil cinq cens [28 June 1500].

Description

[92] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts, metalcuts) ; 14.5 cm. (8vo)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m4v: Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme furent achevees le .xxviii. iour de Juing Lan mil cinq cens. pour Simo[n] vostre Libraire: demoura[n]t a Paris en la rue neuue nostre dame a lenseigne sainct Jehan levangeliste.
Printed in Pigouchet's types 1:98G, 2:64G, and 3:80G. Pigouchet's printer's mark, leaf a1r.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m⁴: 92 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Almanac for years 1497-1520, leaf a1v.
Signed r on first leaf of each quire for Roman use.
Woodcuts and metalcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.4 x 9.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: d4.5.
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (14.5 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue intitials. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 110, 21/2/96 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department