1519 BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED on VELLUM FRAGMENT antique POST-INCUNABULA scarce

Horae BMV

Les presentes heures a l'usage d'Orleans tout au long sans rien requerir.

Paris, Guillaume Godart ; N.D. (1519)

Almanac part of the extremely rare Book of Hours

8 leaves with large color printer's mark (watercolored in hand)

Initials in gold on a blue and red background, beautiful print in black and red on vellum.

Bound with modern thread stitching, loosely inserted in modern vellum binding

- Cf. Bohatta 968 (Horae BMV a l'usage de Rome, ibid. 1515). - 

 Only a few copies of this vellum print have survived.

Very good condition

Size 4 1/2 by 7 1/8"

Text in Latin
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