91 - Heures a lusaige de Rome tout au long sans requerir. Paris, Gillet Hardouyn, [1515]. A parchment copy of Gillet Hardouyn’s remarkable Grandes Heures

Heures a lusaige de Rome tout au long sans requerir. Paris, Gillet Hardouyn, [1515]. A parchment copy of Gillet Hardouyn’s remarkable Grandes Heures Heures a lusaige de Rome tout au long sans requerir. Paris, Gillet Hardouyn, [1515]. Quarto (212 x 140 mm); [88] leaves. Printed on parchment, an almanac covering the years 1515 to 1530, with text set within ornamental borders depicting mostly figures or scenes from the Holy Scriptures, initials rubricated in red, blue, and gold, 22 large illustrations in various styles, enclosed within filleted or architectural frames (printing is uneven, with paler engravings on the flesh side of the parchment; some plates, including the title page, show modern color alterations; the last two fascicles are missing.) 20th-century binding in brown morocco leather signed C. Nederveen in 's-Hertogenbosch; the covers feature a double blind-stamped border and gilded floral friezes at the corners and center of the covers; the spine has five raised bands with a tiolo and gold decoration; endpapers in blue silk moiré; gilt edges. The illustrations include the rescue of Deianira, who was abducted by Nessus; the anatomical man depicted as a skeleton; and the final plate showing two angels holding up a crowned shield bearing twelve castles with an armillary sphere. These two engravings on the last page constitute Hardouyn’s printer’s marks. Lacombe, no. 265. A vellum copy of Gillet Hardouyn’s remarkable *Grandes Heures*