Lot 1055 , Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Use of Rome, 8vo, gothic text in Latin, 322 pp., (185 x 117mm.), signatures - 7ff. (unsigned and not foliated), c-x8, y2; foliation - (in lower margin) commences (f4) and is ff.

Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Use of Rome, 8vo, gothic text in Latin, 322 pp., (185 x 117mm.), signatures - 7ff. (unsigned and not foliated), c-x8, y2; foliation - (in lower margin) commences (f4) and is ff. i - cxxvii (finishes y2). alternately hand-rubricated with Lombard initials in red and blue, metalcut garden borders to each page, one full-page metalcut of the Holy Grail in the form of Christ’s wound, contemporary French blindstamped calf, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, Paris, c.1500.

Provenance: Sotheby’s December 19th, 1929; private collection East Sussex.
£600-900

Condition:
lacking clasps. c6 clean tear no loss over lower border and part of 6 lines, little soiling (mostly marginal) over part of borders, d4-6, most of decorative upper border excised folio. cv