Breviary, use of Sarum

Estimate

500 - 700 GBP

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Description

Portiforium seu breviarium ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis... Pars hyemalis. Paris: François Regnault, 1554 (Magdalene Boursette, the widow of Regnault, 1555)
Paper

8vo (133 x 93mm.), printed in red and black throughout, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations, modern calf, blue marbled edges, cut close at head with some headlines cropped, last quire slightly soiled and damaged in gutter

Provenance

Edward Lyon, early inscription on p1; The Law Society, ink stamp on verso of title-page

Literature

Bohatta 2705 (both parts); Mendham R369; STC 15837