Hore beate Marie v[ir]gi[ni]s secundu[m] vsum Sarum
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Hore beate Marie v[ir]gi[ni]s secundu[m] vsum Sarum
Other titles: Book of hours (Salisbury); Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Sarum; Hore beate Marie virginis secundum vsum Sarum
Classmark: BC Incunabula/HOR
Creator(s): Catholic Church
Additional creator(s): Kerver, Thielmann (1522) (Publisher); Richart, Jehan (1494-1517) (Publisher); Philippi de Cruzenach, Johann (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Kerver, Thielmann; Richart, Jehan; Philippi de Cruzenach, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: J[ohann] P[hilippi de Cruzenach for] Thielman Kerver; J[ohann] P[hilippi de Cruzenach], for Thielman Kerver and Jean Richard
Publication city: [Paris]
Date(s): Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo septimo pro iohanne ricardo mercatore librario rothomagi. [1497]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [140] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/56622
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007753769705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a]⁸ b-q⁸ r⁴ [et]⁸.
Publisher statement and date of publication from colophon which gives date in Latin words before publisher's name.
Colophon on r4v reads: Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo septimo. Pro iohanne ricardo mercatore librario rothomagi commoranti iuxta magnam ecclesiam beate marie.
Woodcut printer's mark of Thielman Kerver on title page. Woodcut printer's mark of Philippi de Cruzenach below the colophon on r4v.
Eight leaves (gathering [et]) of special prayers appended, with caption title: AVxiliatrix sis michi trinitas sancta deus in nomine tuo leuabo manus.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Woodcut illustrations on the title page and throughout, with each page of text surrounded by a woodcut border.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ih00421000.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 15885; Goff H421; Duff 191; Hoskins 15.
Features
In ink manuscript on the verso of what remains of a leaf bound at the front of the text are fragmentary notes, fifteenth-century.
In ink and pencil manuscript on the verso of what remains of a leaf bound at the front of the text are fragmentary notes, sixteenth-century to twentieth-century, with one dated 1776.
Occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century, cropped.
Initials supplied in red and blue.
Fragmentary. Wanting signatures [a], b, d7, d8, h5, k1, l6, n5, n6, r3, r4, [et].
There are 10 inserted manuscript leaves between d6 and f1 restoring missing text. The woodcut borders are mostly intact.
Bindings
Binding no longer extant. There are the remains of a brown leather spine, probably eighteenth-century, with gold-tooling. Near the top of the spine is a red pared leather lettering piece gold-tooled with the letters: M.S.S. The item is in a protective cardboard case. Leaf size: 154 x 103mm.
Provenance
The book has no marks of ownership but was acquired by Sir Edward Allen Brotherton for his collection.
Access and usage
Access
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