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Hore Beate Marie Virginis : secundum usum Romanum
Paris
Guillaume Merlin (Jean Amazeur)
1552
In-12mo, 213 + [3] ff, entirely printed in red and black, in gothic script. With ca. 40 woodcuts in text (some full-page), beautiful initials. Tears repaired in ff. 136-137. Woodcut printer's device with a swan (In hoc cygno vinces) on last page (small hole repaired). Some damp staining at the end. Full calf binding with blind tooling, in the style of the period, all edges gilt
Extremely rare Latin Book of Hours printed in Paris. Bohatta's only reference is to the copy "Auktion De Vries 1914". Ref. Bohatta, I, 1243; unknown at Lacombe; missing at BNF; missing at USTC
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Paris
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