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Philippe Pigouchet Guillaume Eustace
Simon Vostre Guillaume Godard
Nicole Costre Francois Regnault
Antoine Verard Geofrey Tory et ses successeurs
Jean du Pre
Thielman Kerver
Les Hardouyn

A.W. Pollard - each of the Hours had its mystical refernce to some event
in the lives of the Blessed Virgin + our Lord.
Lands - referred to the visit of Mary to Elizabeth
Prime - to the Nativity
Turice - to the Angel's Message to the Shepherds
Sext - to the Adoration of the Magi
Nones - ot the Circumcision
Visper - to the Flight into Egupt
Compline - to the Assumption of the Virgin

- both wood and copper were employed in engraving different
editions of these designs. (borders etc.)
- Gunst Z 239.9 K45C3 Price Case - 1524 - Heured de Romme - T. Kerver
- Calendars (MS) The major saints + the great feasts of the Church
are of course universal; these days are entered in color +
give us the phrase 'red letter days.'

The Dominical Letter - Dionysus Exiquus, a Seythian
Monk in the year 532 introduced the system of dating from
the Incarnation of our Lord, now written Anno Domini
The 7 days of the week were indicated by A-G which
were fixed to the days of the year, in a constantly
recurring order beginning with letter A for the 1st of Jan.
Thus in a year beginning with Sunday on the 1st of Jan
the letter A would be the Dominical letter.