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Pasitic Book Auction
San Francisco
Dec. '92
$90(99).

Book of Hours - pritned.
Paris: Gilles Hardouyn for Germain: Hardouyn,
1520-25.
Bifolium on vellum, leaves 53 (Hii) + 58 8^0.
30 lines, 12.3 x20.3 cm. (each leaf) ruled in red.
One + 2 lien liquid gold initials on alternating red +
blue grounds. Text ruled by hand. Lettres batardes.

leaf 53 - Office of the Dead, Matins, 2nd nocturn
Psalm 25 (24) + Ad te Domine
Psalm 27 (26) + Deus Deus meus

20 lines = 92-3mm.
In purpose + format, pritned Books of Hours followed the
older MSS examples. The more luxurious specimines were
pritned on vellum, the cheaper ones on paper: both types
contained the same prayers + devotions + followed the
traditional scheme of illustration established in MSS copies.
The brothers Germain + Gilles Hardouin produced
almost as many examples as Vostre + Pigouchet.
Gilles Hardouyn - 1491-1521. (1503-21)
Germain Hardouyn - 1500-1541. (?son or brother) (1522-38)
Each printed alone as well as together.
Gillet H. demousat au bout de pont nostrer Dame - et
par Germain H. demouret entre les deux portes du Pslais
a leseigne sete Morguerite.
Bohatta #1048 Paris, Gilles Hardouyn pour Germain
Use of Rome Hardouyn (1520-25) 8^0. 78 Fol (A8, B8, C8, D-K8) 30 lines.
#1049 Paris, Gilles Hardouyn pour German Hardouyn (1520-25) 8^0
80 fol. (A-K8) 30 lines - Lacombe 302.