BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Hand-ruled and rubricated throughout; capitals supplies in gold on red and blue backgrounds. Hand-colored illustrations are: the printer's device on the t.p., the skeleton and surrounding figures on t.p. verso, full-page ill. of Bathsheba and David, full-page ill. of Mary surrounded by emblems (partially reconstructed when original text was removed and replaced with ms. insert?), and 18 small ill throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Imperfect: comprising 70 leaves (so numbered in pencil), with lacunae after leaves 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 30, 37, 51, 54. Text of leaves 59-60 and 65-66 has been cut out and manuscript text inlaid within the borders instead. The signatures appear to have been erased throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Printed on vellum. Bound in morocco with gilt tooling and edges; emblematical clasp. Dealer's description on front paste-down., Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴., Imprint from colophon: Ont este acheuees a Paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq cēs et neuf [1509/10]. Par Gillet Hardouyn imprimeur demourant au bout du pont au change a lenseige de la rose au desoub[-]z de la Belle Ymage., Collation and signatures given according to P. Lacombe, Livres d'Heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle, Paris. 1907, p. 116, no. 199., Text within compartmental illustrated borders, some with captions in French or Latin. Capital spaces. Printer's device on t.p. and at colophon., and Includes almanac for the years 1508-1520, in French.
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in a Gothic liturgical hand, of a Psalter, prefaced by a liturgical calendar and followed by the Office of the Dead.
Description:
Binding: modern full blue velvet., Ex libris John Ruskin. Ex libris Laurence Hilliard. Ex libris Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (J. R. Ritman Library). Purchased from Sam Fogg on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007., Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: Laurence Hilliard with John Ruskin's love, Brantwood, 25th January 1881., Tipped in at front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing copy of a letter from Joseph Mallord William Turner to John Ruskin, Midsummer Day [June 24] 1848, in the hand of John Ruskin., and Tipped in to front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing a description of the illuminations in the hand of John Ruskin.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church, Hilliard, Laurence--Ownership, Ruskin, John--1819-1900.--Autograph, and Turner, Joseph Mallord William--1775-1851.--Association
Subject (Topic):
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Psalters