[LIVRE D'HEURES] - Heures de Nostre Dame à lusage du Mans to - Lot 27

Lot 27
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[LIVRE D'HEURES] - Heures de Nostre Dame à lusage du Mans to - Lot 27
[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, num. ff. from VIII to 211, (1) f., lacking B1 (June calendar), goth. car, printing in red and black, Thielman Kerver mark to title and end, fig. of anatomical man, 11 of 12 figs. for calendar, 45 figs. engraved on metal pl. page, lower margin of title ref. without lack of text, qqs. stains, title and last f. verso yellowed with ms. inscriptions, havana chagr. pl., double gilt thread on boards. gilt thread on boards, ornate ribbed spine. Not in Bohatta or Lacombe. Only one ex. known, 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. Figs. were already used by Kerver c. 1522-1525.
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