Breviariu[m] premo[n]straten[se] [Pars estivalis]. [Paris, T - Lot 7

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Breviariu[m] premo[n]straten[se] [Pars estivalis]. [Paris, T - Lot 7
Breviariu[m] premo[n]straten[se] [Pars estivalis]. [Paris, Thielman Kerver, March 28, 1505]. In-8, 9.5 x 14.5 cm, 8 ff. unencumbered, 88 ff. unencumbered, 16 ff. unencumbered, 112 ff. unencumbered, 48 ff. unencumbered, 56 ff. unencumbered, 80 ff. non chiffré, ([]8, a-h8, A-C8, ã8, ~e8, A-O8, AA-EE8, AA-GG8, A-K8), contemporary binding in brown calf over aies, framed with cold rolled decoration, spine ribbed, later metal corners and clasps, blue edges. First edition. Parisian Gothic printing by Thielman Kerver, in red and black on two columns, of this breviary for the use of the Prémontré order. The work contains the calendar, the proper time for summer, the psalter, the common, an abridgement of the missal, the proper time for summer. On verso of title, dedicatory epistle from Brother Aubertus Clerici to Jacques de Bachimont, general of the order. Illustrated with 3 full-page woodcuts: Saint Norbert, founder of the order, presenting Jacques de Bachimont to Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb (on the title), Crucifixion and Virgin in Majesty. Full-page woodcut printer's mark. Numerous 16th-century annotations in ink, mainly in the margins of the calendar, and unfinished handwritten hagiographic text in Latin, in Gothic script, on Saint Catherine (1 1/2 pages, in fine). A fine copy. Lower corner of the first 17 leaves worn and small tears without missing in the lower margin of a few leaves. Covers worn, spine rubbed. Joints worn and missing. From the library of abbé Gasparoli (A catalog of the valuable theological portion of the extensive library of the late abbé Gasparolli, London, Sotheby, June 3, 1818). Jean Marie Michel Gasparoli (1737-1814), canon of Antwerp, had a rich collection of printed books (incunabula and 16th century) sold in London in 1818, but also a collection of medieval and humanist manuscripts, dispersed anonymously in Antwerp on September 3, 1823 (Catalogue d'une belle collection de manuscrits, tant sur vélin et d'autres...) and a collection of paintings, sculptures and antiques sold in Antwerp in 1848, after the death of his niece and heiress, Hélène Herry. Moreau. Inventory. I, 1505, p. 148, no. 39.- Bohatta. Bibliographie der Breviere. 981. Expert: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE
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