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Shelfmark

Sa2.5.19

Main entry--corporate name

Uniform title

[Book of hours (Salisbury)]

Title

Enchiridion preclare ecclesie Sarum: devotissimis precatio[n]ibus: ac venutissimis imaginibus: [et] iis quidem non paucis refertum..

Publication, distribution, etc.

[Impressum est in hoc orarium Parisiis : In edibus spectabilis viri Germani Hardouyn libratii iurati vniversitatis Parisien[sis]. apud palatii co[m]morantis ad signum diue Margarete., Anno salutis nostre millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo. Die vero. vi. Maii. [6 May 1530]

Physical description

clxxxiiii leaves : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Language

Text in Latin; illustrations have captions in English.

Note

Printer's device with inscription "Germanus Hardouyn" on title-page.

Note

Armorial vignette with inscriptions "Arma redemptoris mundi" and "Redemptoris mundi arma" on leaf z8v.

Note

With numerous illustrations, some full-page, throughout.

Note

Signatures: a-z⁸.

Note

Imprint from colophon.

Citation/references note

Hoskins, 91

Citation/references note

STC (2nd ed.), 15965

Citation/references note

ESTC, S121253

Citation/references note

Paul Quarrie, Eton College Library exhibition of manuscripts and printed books, 27th congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), 1984, pt. 1, no. 46

Additional physical form available

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1981. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1576:15).

Provenance

Lengthy ms. note on flyleaf written in 1696 by William Fleetwood (Bishop of Ely) stating that the book had belonged to Mary Tudor and later to Mary of Modena, James II's queen, after whose flight from England it had been sold at a general auction from which an unnamed London bookseller had bought it. For translation, see ILAB Eton exhibition catalogue, 1984, pt. 1, no. 46.

Provenance

The bookseller sold it to William Fleetwood for fifty three shillings and Fleetwood intended to return it to the Queen or give it to Eton College (where he was a fellow).

Provenance

Supposed ms. inscription of Mary Tudor facing the picture of the Annunciation (ff.vv): "My lorde I shall desire you to pray for me Marye the queen".

Binding

?19th-century black morocco decorated with gilt tooling: two fillets to form concentric borders with floral tools at the inner corners; three blind-stamped fleur-de-lis as centre piece. Gilt-tooled spine with five raised bands.

Copy-specific note

Previous shelfmark: GUT.B.2.16.

Copy-specific note

Woodcut illustrations have been painted by hand. Simple or architectural borders in shell gold within red lines have been added to the text and miniatures. Initials in shell gold on red or blue ground.

Copy-specific note

Copy printed on vellum.

Subject

Subject

Subject

Books of hours Early works to 1800.

Added entry--name

Added entry--name

Mary I, Queen of England, former owner.

Added entry--name

Mary of Modena, Queen, consort of James II, King of England, associated name.

Added entry--name

Added entry--place

France Paris.

Identifier

B25986
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