Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme tout an [sic] long sans riens requerir Auec les grans suffrages ont este nouuelleme[n]t imprimees.
Catholic Church
Category
Books
Date
circa 1505
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3131556
Summary
Bibliographic description
[176]p . ill.. . 8vo.. Printed on vellum. 33 lines to a page. Signatures: a-l8. Almanac covers 1505-1525. Imperfect: wants leaves a1, a8, c7, e3, e6, f3-6, g4-5, . manuscript illumination and coloured initials throughout. Full page hand-coloured illustrations on leaves a5v, b3v, b4r, c2v, c8r, d1v, d3v, d6r, d8v, l2v. Bookseller's? note on front free endpaper: "Heure ornée de 10 grandes mignatures et de 25 petites". Part of manuscript map of Russia (by Gardner Wilkinson?) used as bookmark at leaves f7-8.. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Letter 'M' pricked into vellum of rear endpapers. Some handwriting practice on rear endpapers. Binding: Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century morocco, gilt panel & ornaments, 5 raised bands, spine gilt-tooled. Retains vellum free endpapers, but with nineteenth-century? blue decorative endpapers pasted in. Mark of clasp or chain at head.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Catholic Church Germain Hardouyn, engraver and publisher