8th Feb, 2024 11:00
The Oxford Library Sale
565
Post-incunable (Book of Hours): Heures a l'usaige de Romme. Paris, Anthoine Chappiel pour Gilles Hardouyn, 22 August 1504 [includes almanac for 1497-1520]. Octavo, 79 leaves of 32 lines. Printed on vellum.
COLLATION: [A]8 B-K8 but lacking 1 folio in quire C. Red ruling added by hand. Text in Latin and French.
DECORATION: 12 large woodcut illustrations, coloured by hand. Also includes smaller hand-coloured woodcut illustrations. One- and two-line decorative initials and decorative line fillers added by hand (gold on red or blue).
BINDING: Bound in later purple velvet with metal centrepieces and cornerpieces (180 x 110 mm). With (unrelated?) pale pink box.
PROVENANCE: Manuscript annotations to sigs. [A]1r and K8v. Owner’s signature(?) to sigs. B2r and K8v. Armorial bookplate. A catalogue description tipped in at front, and a further description loosely enclosed. Pencil notes to endpapers. With Messrs Christie 28/6/1972.
CONDITION: Minor wear to velvet, minor staining to vellum. Occasional small early(?) repairs to vellum, with a few words supplied by hand.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 6689; Lacombe, Livres d’Heures (1907), pp. 87-8, no. 143 bis; Pettegree et al, French Books (2007) no. 29496.
Provenance: John. P. Love Collection
Sold for £4,000
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000
Post-incunable (Book of Hours): Heures a l'usaige de Romme. Paris, Anthoine Chappiel pour Gilles Hardouyn, 22 August 1504 [includes almanac for 1497-1520]. Octavo, 79 leaves of 32 lines. Printed on vellum.
COLLATION: [A]8 B-K8 but lacking 1 folio in quire C. Red ruling added by hand. Text in Latin and French.
DECORATION: 12 large woodcut illustrations, coloured by hand. Also includes smaller hand-coloured woodcut illustrations. One- and two-line decorative initials and decorative line fillers added by hand (gold on red or blue).
BINDING: Bound in later purple velvet with metal centrepieces and cornerpieces (180 x 110 mm). With (unrelated?) pale pink box.
PROVENANCE: Manuscript annotations to sigs. [A]1r and K8v. Owner’s signature(?) to sigs. B2r and K8v. Armorial bookplate. A catalogue description tipped in at front, and a further description loosely enclosed. Pencil notes to endpapers. With Messrs Christie 28/6/1972.
CONDITION: Minor wear to velvet, minor staining to vellum. Occasional small early(?) repairs to vellum, with a few words supplied by hand.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 6689; Lacombe, Livres d’Heures (1907), pp. 87-8, no. 143 bis; Pettegree et al, French Books (2007) no. 29496.
Provenance: John. P. Love Collection
Auction: The Oxford Library Sale, 8th Feb, 2024
Day One
Clocks, Furniture, Works of Art and Collectable - Lots 1 - 406
Day Two
Fine Bindings and Incunables from the collection of the late John P. Love - Lots 501- 575 (Click here to read about J. P. Love)
Antiquarian and Modern Books from multiple vendors - Lots 576 - 598
Books from the Library of the late Malcom Deas - Lots 601 - 702 (Click here to read about M. Deas)
Antiquarian and Modern Books from multiple vendors - Lots 703 - 783
Viewing
Saturday 3 February 9am - 1pm
Monday 5 February 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 6 February 9am - 5pm
