farfel_n05_065_346

346
P. Pirages
McMinnville, Oregon
Nov. '92
$125

Officium Beatae Virginis Mariae. Colored + gold
Lyons: [Jacobinas Suigus and Nicolaus de Benedictis]
for Boninus de publisher. Boninis, 20, Mar 1499/1500. 8^0
Fairfax Murray French 277-78 Lacombe 500 +50 Ref: Goff O-48, HCR 11995, Bon (1924) 99, Boh (1909) 89,
IGI 4863, Pr 8662, BMC VIII 342. Pell 5930 (5917)
Copy: HEHL (vell (-), MMu PL; NYPL (vell) WArt GL (vell) B. Nat (vell)
BMC Horae. Officum B.V. Maria adusum Romanae ecclesiae.
on vellum, 154x104mm 20 March 1499. 8^0
[a-c8]; A-I k L-N8; O-T8 176 leaves.
17a: 21 liens fo type 83 G, 86x57mm.
Types: 98 G title, calendar, text on + after 24b;
83 G , text on 13b-24a; 75 G, inscriptions
in borders,medical verses in calendar.
Red pritned Lombards + spaces, both also within
the line. Each page of text is enclosed in metal cut
borders.

83G - law text type distinguished by square V with double diagonal (Proctor 5)
98G - law text type with empty M is 2 parts, O + Q are tilted to left
the serif of rounded d is horizontal. Medium double hyphen, but
single hyphen also occurs. iN use throughout + also used at
Turin by Suigus in 1497. (Proctor 9)
75G - small plain text type previously used at Turin (Proctor 10 + Turin)

17 metal cuts, including 2 repeats of the Annunciation, of incidents in
the Life fo Christ (67x58mm). As for the borders, the lower
panels in the calendar - zodiacal signs + occupations of
the months on one page, + landscape scenes flanked by
saints etc on the ohter page of each opening. Elsewhere, besides
the landscapes, sets of scenes from the lives of Christ 30 different subjecs + the
Virgin + of the Dance of Death (30) I8 recto to N8 verso, Sibyls (12) are used.

The side panels represent either 3 saints + patriarchs apiece,
or 2 saints with spaces between for type set inscriptions. The
narrow inner + upper strips are filled with Renaissance ornament.