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(LITTLE OFFICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.) Officium beatissime virginis Marie con li officij ordinati de ciaschun tempo. 28 full-page woodcut illustrations printed from 13 blocks; title within 4-part woodcut ornamental border; each text page within different woodcut historiated border incorporating vignettes of biblical and Dance of Death scenes. [16], 216 leaves. Printed in red and black throughout. 8vo, contemporary Venetian brown morocco gilt, simple double-fillet strapwork border on covers surrounding large panel with arabesque cornerpieces and ornamental roundel in center enclosing figures of Virgin and Child with floral tool above and below, ties lacking, spine ends discreetly reinforced; marginal foxing through most of volume, occasional browning, insignificant worming in blank margins of opening leaves, scattered stains, mainly toward end; gilt edges, gauffered to knotwork pattern. [Venice: Francesco Bindoni, circa 1525]
Bohatta, page 63. OCLC locates copies at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and at Cambridge University; this edition not in NUC or EDIT16. For Venetian bindings of the period with identical cornerpiece, floral tool, and roundel see Marinis, La Legatura Artistica in Italia 2160, 2161 bis, and 2162.
