Details

Subject(s)

• Books of hours [Browse]

Printer

• Verard, Antoine, -approximately 1513 [Browse]

Former owner

• Reed, David Aiken, 1880-1953 [Browse]
• Harlet family [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Books of hours—France—15th century [Browse]

Notes

• Title from colophon; imprint from Goff.
• Leaf [3a]: Benedictio dei patris cum angelis suis sit super me amen.
• Colophon (leaf 88, verso) Ces p[re]sentes heures a lusaige de [Sanz] furent acheuees le .ix. iour de feurier mil cinq ce[n]s. Pour Anthoine Verard libraire demourant a Paris ...
• Macfarlane, John. Antoine Vérard (London, 1900) 227-229 (variation: Of the full-page illus. no. [13] is a Judgment of Solomon not listed in MacFarlane, p. 133, and the others are those numbered by him 1-2, 22, 4-5, 20, 16-17, 8-11, 13, 23-24, 19, in that order.
• Signatures: a⁸b⁴c-d⁸e⁶f-g⁸h⁶aa-dd⁸.
• On vellum.
• 32 lines to the page.
• The use is supplied in ms. in a later hand (place not identified)
• ExI copy has engravings illuminated in gold and colors; painted floral borders; painted coat of arms on last page, above the colophon.
• ExI copy has an additional blank signature of four leaves of vellum bound at end, containing five pages of births, baptisms, etc. of the family of François Harlet, dated from 1612 to 1687, in various handwritings.

Binding note

ExI copy in black goatskin stamped in blind, bordered with a single gold fillet.

Source acquisition

ExI copy is from the collection of David Aiken Reed, Class of 1900, presented in his memory by Mrs. Reed.

References

Goff H-341

OCLC

84914622

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