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Book of Hours, Use of Sarum [Salisbury].- [Hore beatissime v[ir]ginis Marie ad veru[m] Sarisburie[n]sis ecclesie ritu[m]: cu[m] q[ui]ndeci[m] or[ati]onibus b[ea]te Brigitte et plecisq[ue] alijs. Acuti index in calce earundum annexus edocet], black letter, printed in red and black, text in Latin and English, 226 ff. (of 234, lacking title, first f. of calendar and 3 other preliminary ff., as well as A1, X8 and last f. of table), 17 full-page woodcuts, woodcuts and text within woodcut historiated borders, including a Dance of Death series, with an ms. leaf from around the start of the 15th century of the Ethica Nicomachea of Robert Grosseteste, first 3 ff. repaired with tape, a few passages crossed through in ink, but legible, including mentions of Saint Thomas Beckett and the Pope, occasional soiling or staining, contemporary panelled blind-stamped calf by Nicolas Spierinck of Cambridge, with his characteristic 'NS' mark, interspersing gryphons and wyverns, laid down on moderm morocco, with lacking backstrip, corners worn, creased and rubbed, 4to (248 x 173mm.), [Paris], [Impresse quide[m] Parisijs in officina industrij calcographi Nicolai Preuost. Impe[n]sis vero fidelissimi mercatoris Francisci Byrkman ciuis coloniensis. Et apud eunde[m] venunda[n]tur Londonii apud cimiteriu[m] sancti Pauli], [18 July, 1527].

⁂ A rare work at auction, printed in Paris by Nicolas Prevost for sale in London. It is noteworthy that the work is in a Cambridge binding, as the city became a centre for protestant beliefs and the distribution of protestant texts, and so, contemporary Cambridge ownership of this volume may well account for the scoring out of those passages with strong Catholic overtones.

Provenance: William ?Rous (contemporary ink signature).

Literature: STC 15953.

Lot 16

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum [Salisbury].- [Hore beatissime v[ir]ginis Marie ad veru[m] Sarisburie[n]sis ecclesie ritu[m]], text in Latin and English, in a contemporary Cambridge binding, [Paris], Nicolas Prevost for Franz Birckman, 1527.  

Hammer Price: £3,500

Description

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum [Salisbury].- [Hore beatissime v[ir]ginis Marie ad veru[m] Sarisburie[n]sis ecclesie ritu[m]: cu[m] q[ui]ndeci[m] or[ati]onibus b[ea]te Brigitte et plecisq[ue] alijs. Acuti index in calce earundum annexus edocet], black letter, printed in red and black, text in Latin and English, 226 ff. (of 234, lacking title, first f. of calendar and 3 other preliminary ff., as well as A1, X8 and last f. of table), 17 full-page woodcuts, woodcuts and text within woodcut historiated borders, including a Dance of Death series, with an ms. leaf from around the start of the 15th century of the Ethica Nicomachea of Robert Grosseteste, first 3 ff. repaired with tape, a few passages crossed through in ink, but legible, including mentions of Saint Thomas Beckett and the Pope, occasional soiling or staining, contemporary panelled blind-stamped calf by Nicolas Spierinck of Cambridge, with his characteristic 'NS' mark, interspersing gryphons and wyverns, laid down on moderm morocco, with lacking backstrip, corners worn, creased and rubbed, 4to (248 x 173mm.), [Paris], [Impresse quide[m] Parisijs in officina industrij calcographi Nicolai Preuost. Impe[n]sis vero fidelissimi mercatoris Francisci Byrkman ciuis coloniensis. Et apud eunde[m] venunda[n]tur Londonii apud cimiteriu[m] sancti Pauli], [18 July, 1527].

⁂ A rare work at auction, printed in Paris by Nicolas Prevost for sale in London. It is noteworthy that the work is in a Cambridge binding, as the city became a centre for protestant beliefs and the distribution of protestant texts, and so, contemporary Cambridge ownership of this volume may well account for the scoring out of those passages with strong Catholic overtones.

Provenance: William ?Rous (contemporary ink signature).

Literature: STC 15953.

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