Catholic Church; Hardouyn, Germain (active 1500-1541), publisher; Hardouyn, Gilles (active 1491-1521) printer:

[Book of Hours: Hore beate marie virginis secundum]: Hore beate Marie virginis scdm usum ec // clesie romane totaliter ad longum cum mul // tis suffragiis et orationibus.

Paris: Germain Hardouyn, ca. [1520/21 – Note the presence of a calendar for 31 March 1521- 29 March 1540], Gilles Hardouyn, printer;, [late 1520/ early1521] Edition. Binding: Nineteenth century full morocco; covers with decorative, triple-gilt filleted panels, and gilt floral corners; spine with five (5) raised bands, gilt-lettered title on two and compartments richly gilt decorated with central floral ornament and surrounding gilt designs; wide inner dentelled gilt edge; pasted and free endpaper in matching gilt-black design; all edges gilt. , Notes: Book of prayer and devotions; Brunet comments on the merits and value of the illuminations - paintings and ornate letters - decorating the work. , Size: Octavo. (17.9 x 11.0mm)., Illustration: Printed on vellum with fifteen (15) full-page and fifteen (15) in-text hand-illuminated metal cuts; eleven (11) of the large ones are furthermore gilt-illuminated creating borders, at times extending over two pages; all text pages are surrounded by historiated woodcut borders; many capitals are illuminated throughout; some borders and lines are likewise emphasized by hand- illuminations. All text leaves in twenty-three lines except for the insertions having an additional line.
Text in Latin; some explanation in Middle French.
Gothic script; In one column of twenty-three lines.
, Provenance: Faint, illegible marginalia on lower edge of title [A1]. , References: Bohatta, 961; Lacombe, 316; Brunet IV (1839), 589. , Pages: Ff: [110ff]; collation: 2 bl., A1-N8 plus 2 inserts, 2 bl.. , Category: Book Religious Christianity; Book Plate Books Colour; Book Early Printed 1500;. Near fine. Item #B6420

Binding: Nineteenth century full morocco; covers with decorative, triple-gilt filleted panels, and gilt floral corners; spine with five (5) raised bands, gilt-lettered title on two and compartments richly gilt decorated with central floral ornament and surrounding gilt designs; wide inner dentelled gilt edge; pasted and free endpaper in matching gilt-black design; all edges gilt. , Notes: Book of prayer and devotions; Brunet comments on the merits and value of the illuminations - paintings and ornate letters - decorating the work. , Size: Octavo. (17.9 x 11.0mm)., Illustration: Printed on vellum with fifteen (15) full-page and fifteen (15) in-text hand-illuminated metal cuts; eleven (11) of the large ones are furthermore gilt-illuminated creating borders, at times extending over two pages; all text pages are surrounded by historiated woodcut borders; many capitals are illuminated throughout; some borders and lines are likewise emphasized by hand- illuminations. All text leaves in twenty-three lines except for the insertions having an additional line.
Text in Latin; some explanation in Middle French.
Gothic script; In one column of twenty-three lines.
, Provenance: Faint, illegible marginalia on lower edge of title [A1]. , References: Bohatta, 961; Lacombe, 316; Brunet IV (1839), 589. , Pages: Ff: [110ff]; collation: 2 bl., A1-N8 plus 2 inserts, 2 bl.. , Category: Book Religious Christianity; Book Plate Books Colour; Book Early Printed 1500;.

Price: $32,000.00