Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(HORAE B.M.V.) Officiu[m] immaculate virginis Marie. 18 full-page woodcut illustrations; half-page woodcuts of St. Jerome kneeling before the crucified Christ on title and the Instruments of the Passion on m6v; 43 small text illustrations; woodcut historiated initials throughout. [24], 180 leaves. Collation: + 2+ in 12, a-p in 12. Text printed in red and black. 12mo, 136x72 mm, old limp vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; marginal dampstaining through much of volume, most noticeably at beginning and end, occasional soiling, small area of text abraded on title, lower half of m12 torn and restored with substantial text loss. (Venice: Tommaso [Ballarino] de Trenengo, 25 February 1530)

Additional Details

apparently unrecorded small-format illustrated book of hours. Not in Bohatta, Essling, Sander, Harvard/Mortimer-Italian, OCLC, USTC, or EDIT16, which lists no productions of this press earlier than 1531.