[Book of hours] Heures nostre dame a l'usage de Rouen, Rouen, [1593], vellum gilt binding

Property from the Loverdos Collection

Book of hours. Use of Rouen

Three devotional works printed in Rouen, in a contemporary gilt vellum binding, comprising:

Heures nostre dame a l'usage de Rouen. Rouen: Henri le Mareschal (George Loyselet), [almanach 1593-1613], printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations (some signed NV)

François le Picart. Les grans suffrages et oraisons. Rouen: Henri le Mareschal, [no date], woodcut illustrations, woodcut device at end, with final blank leaf

La vie mort passion et resurrection de nostre Sauveur & Redempteur iesus christ. Rouen: Henri le Mareschal, [no date], woodcut on title-page, woodcut initials

3 works in one volume, 8vo (170 x 107mm.), contemporary painted vellum gilt with panel stamp of the Crucifixion and arabesque corner pieces, first title repaired in gutter, first A8 becoming loose, final quires of second work becoming loose, final work with some tears and small holes, textblock split at start of third part (becoming loose), binding somewhat rubbed, spine creased with slight loss

A RARE ROUEN BOOK OF HOURS. Henri le Mareschal was active as a bookseller in Rouen from 1574 to 1622.

LITERATURE

1. Bohatta 1366 [but with imprint of Nicolas Vautier]; USTC 7403 (recording just one fragmentary copy, in Nantes)

2. USTC 7418 (recording one copy only, in Nantes)

3. not found in any of the standard bibliographies