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[LIVRE D'HEURES] - Heures de Nostre Dame à lusage du Mans to…
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[LIVRE D'HEURES] - Heures de Nostre Dame à lusage du Mans to…
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Estimate €500
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[LIVRE D'HEURES] - Heures de Nostre Dame à lusage du Mans toutes au long sans rien requerir : avec plusieurs belles histoires / antiennes et oraisons de plusieurs sainctz et sainctes selon ledict usage. Aussi y sont plusieurs autres oraisons comme on verra en la table a la fin du livre. Paris, Yolande Bonhomme, widow of the late Thielman Kerver, 1557. In-8, (8) ff, (6/7) ff, numbered ff. from VIII to 211, (1) f., lacking B1 (June of the calendar), goth. car, printing in red and black, mark of Thielman Kerver on title and endpapers, fig. of anatomical man, 11 figs. out of 12 for calendar, 45 figs. engraved on metal pl. page, lower margin of title ref. without lack of text, several stains, title and last f. verso yellowed with ms. inscriptions, tan p. g., double gilt thread on boards.
gilt thread on boards, spine ribbed and decorated. Not in Bohatta or Lacombe. Only one known example, in the municipal library of Le Mans: RES Maine 8* 8562. Fourth book of Hours printed for use in Le Mans since 1497. Yolande Bonhomme, widow of Thielman Kerver, was a partner of Denis Gaignot, one of the first printers in Le Mans. The figures were already used by Kerver c. 1522-1525.
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