Keywords: Horae - Upper cover (Davis500).jpg Style Interlacing ribbon/strapwork Religious IHS initials; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Painted Panel stamp in gold Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf Paris c1550 It is one of the at least three copies of the quarto Hours published in 1549 by Regnault for Claude Chaudière Exposition de reliures n 56 pl 12-see J Toulet L'école de reliure lyonnaise p 155 fig 144 on Heures de Lyon Lyons Library ms 5143 Lucien Gougy sale n 144 pl 11 the present one P Needham Twelve centuries p 198-201 kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York PML 15433 The first example is tooled with the inscription A Ma Dame Duperon the second has the monograms IHS and MA for Jesus and Maria and also the initials FB A second gilt-block binding in the Gougy sale lot 64 pl 6 also has the FB initials They are attributed to one François Bigot of Rouen A similar panel stamp is kept in Carpentras Inguimbertine Library R Caillet- M Caillet La bibliothèque Inguimbertine p 87 n 318 pressmark Ms 16 ; the same panel-stamp is reproduced in G Fleury - J -H Pinault libraires Paris Beaux livres anciens modernes p 84 n 333 on Roland Furieux compose premièrement en ryme Thuscane par messire Loys Arioste Paris Arnoul Langelier 1552; Livres des XVe XVIe siècles dans leurs reliures originales p 69-70 n 180 pl 43 on Heures de Nostre Dame a lusaige de Paris Paris Pierre Joualt 1550; Précieux livres anciens Lundi 13 mai 1985 n 105 on Heures à l'usage de Tournai Paris Simon Vostre no date; Bernard Quaritch Ltd A collection of facsimiles n 46 on Heures a lusaige de Romme Paris Hardouin 1515 object history Text 1549; Paris; B F object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004176 ImageId ImageId 41693 Copyright BL Horae Uploaded with GWToolset Horae - Upper cover Davis500 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6209_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |