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Heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir : avec les figures de la vie de lhomme: et la destruction de Hierusalem ...: PB 3-2021

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 32 (Rothschild)

Titles

Heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir : avec les figures de la vie de lhomme: et la destruction de Hierusalem ...
Book of hours. Latin
Heures à l'usage de Rome

Maker(s)

Catholic church
Printer: Hardouyn, Gilles

Categories

Description

[184]p : ill, woodcuts(some col.) ; 25cm (8vo).

Language: Latin
Place of publication & printer's name from colophon. Date of publication from Adams.
Almanac 1512-1524.
Printed on vellum.
Wanting L8 (pp.[175-176]). Damage to I8, K5, K8, L1 & L3.
Gilles Hardouin's device on t.p., which is enclosed in a portico-design, as is the anatomical man on the title page verso. 30 lines of text per page. 19 full-page woodcuts, including the controversial illustration of the Flagellation. Compartmental borders on every leaf.
Printed on vellum; Black letter with illuminated and hand-coloured initials, and linebreaks in gold, red, blue.
Text in Latin, t.p. and calendar in French.
Binding: red velvet; raised bands; a.e.g.; boxed.

Notes

History note: Purchased 1891. Record of births of Polignac family in ms. on back e.p. Ms. inscr. 'De La Valliere 1784' & Edward Hailstone (bk. label) on front paste-down e.p. Cutting from sales cat. tipped in on front paste-down e.p.

Place(s) associated

  • Paris

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1891)

Dating

Production date: AD 1512 : Imprimees a Paris : Par Gillet Hardouyn ..., [1512]

People, subjects and objects depicted

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 3-2021
Primary reference Number: 300573
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 15 July 2021 Updated: Monday 17 April 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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