Printed on vellum.- [Book of Hours, use of Paris], collation: a-o⁸, 93ff. only (of 104), text in Latin, with large metalcut anatomical figure, 14 whole-page metalcut illustrations, all text within detailed multi-piece historiated and ornamental metalcut borders, initials and paragraph marks bright in blue and red and heightened with gold, some initials three-lines and many two-lines, metalcut of Annunciation heightened in gold, 4ff. towards end with partial later hand-colouring (i8-k1, o1 &o2), lacking a1 (title with Pigouchet's device) and likely lacking c7-8, f2-7, k8, n8, with c1 mis-bound before e1, a couple of very minor spots or stains and some faint marginal toning but generally clean, gutter split at i1, bound in later ?19th century velvet, spine and fore-edges worn from use, 8vo (170 x 113), [Paris], [Philippe Pigouchet, for Simon Vostre], [?late 1490s]

⁂ An excellent example of Pigouchet's vellum-printed Books of Hours, which were renowned for their fine and intricate metalcuts. This copy is likely from a 1497 edition, which calls for 14 whole-page metalcuts (as present here).