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Duytsche ghetyden.

Accession number
PML 18856
Object title

Duytsche ghetyden.

Published

Gheprint Tantwerpen : by my Andraen van Liesvelt, int iaer .M.cccc.ende .xcv. opten .xxix. dach in Julio [29 July 1495].

Description

[152] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 13.5 cm (8vo)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from leaf [a]1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t7v: Ter eere[n] gods en[de] Maria sijnder liever moeder en[de] allen gods heylige[n] en[de] ter salicheyt va[n] allen goede[n] kerstene[n] mensce[n] Soesijn hier vol eyndt die ghetiden van onser liever vrouwen en[de] vele andere ghebeden Gheprint Tantwerpe[n] be de meer poorte int iaer .M.cccc.en[de] .xcv. opte[n] .xxix. dach in Julio By my Andraen van Liesvelt.
Printed in van Liesvelt's types 1:82G and 5:102G.
Signatures: [a]-t⁸: 152 leaves, leaf t8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
17 large woodcuts from 15 blocks, and many small woodcuts and borders.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.2 x 9.5 cm
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (13.5 x 10.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt and gauffered edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Getijdenboek
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Belgium rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red capital strokes; woodcuts hand colored with gilt highlights. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 19th-century French note on woodcuts (front endleaf 3 recto).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Léon Gruel, March 1909.
Classification
Century
Department