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7. Northern France Hours [Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum. Northern France, 1500–1510] With 13 large miniatures and 16 small miniatures within decorated borders that include leaves and flowers, birds, butterflies, imaginary beasts, frogs, and snails, all elaborately painted on a rich gold base, bound in 18th-century French red morocco. The illustration and decoration of this exceptionally richly embellished manuscript show the influence of the artist known as the Master of Petrarch’s Triumphs. $145,000
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8. Lady Carnaby’s Prayer Book [Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin and English, illuminated and printed on vellum. Paris: Germain Hardouin, ca. 1533] With 14 half-page and 3 small metalcuts illuminated in gold and colors, contemporary English velvet binding of morello velvet over wooden boards, silver Tudor rose at center, cornerpieces with floral motif and clasp with fleur-de-lis, vellum endleaves, gilt edges, a rare survival of a 16th-century velvet binding, strictly contemporary with the book. SOLD
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9. Piazzetta Hours [Beatæ Mariæ Virginis Officium. Venice: Giovanni Battista Pasquali, 1740] Engraved text throughout. With 16 full-page vignettes including frontispiece, 20 smaller vignettes and historiated end-pieces within text, half-page vignette on title, historiated initial letters. Original full red morocco extra, covers richly gilt, initials “CMM” on upper cover, original clasps. A fine copy.
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10. Woven Prayer Book [Livre de Prières Tissé…. Lyon: R.P.J. Hervier, designer; J.A. Henry, fabricator, for A. Roux, 1886–1887]
The only illustrated book ever successfully woven on a machine loom. Using the punch-card system of the Jacquard looms, a process which prefigured the computer in uncanny details, programmed perforations in the cards controlled the weaving movements of the hooks manipulating the threads. A perfect copy. (Images for this item are from the Warnock Library, courtesy of Octavo.)
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