LIVE AUCTION JULY 4TH - 2 ST SESSION - WESTERN ART
Facsimile incunabula "Incunabula Book of Hours by Ferrante d'Este"
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Lot 865.
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Description.
Facsimile of the "Incunabula Book of Hours by Ferrante d'Este". A unique copy of the edition of the "horae ad usum Romanum", in Latin and French, the printing of which was completed on 20 August 1496 in the Parisian workshop of Philippe Pigouchet, commissioned by the bookseller-publisher Simon Vostre. As in the case of the manuscript books of hours, it is a collection of offices and prayers for the use of the laity. Published by Millennium Liber. sl. the edition consists of 995 copies, this being numbered 134. It consists of two books in a beautiful wooden box lined with beige velvet.
Size box: 7 x 25.2 x 30.8 cm; book size: 1.8 x 23.7 x 29.8 cm (1); 2.8 x 13.5 x 21 cm (1)