Description (in progress) [Lacombe no.215-216]
Printed on vellum. 29 lines (c.142x60 mm), ruled in red ink.
18 large metalcuts without overpainting, in a fine state of preservation (the Pigouchet-Vostre Set 3-4, measuring c.197x124 mm).
All pages have a full outer border composed of 3 small picture-cuts with text, and a lower border with one or two small pictures, all framed by a variety of decorative borderpieces.
Collation: 96 folios (c.226x146 mm) in 13 gatherings, a⁸-b⁸, c⁴, d⁸-h⁸, i⁶, â⁸, ê⁸, î⁸, ô⁶.
Bound very tightly in worn brown leather, stamped in centre on front and back with a gilt oval medaillon: Crucifixion (late 17th cent.?), stamp common in Paris in various cuts (known from many books and manuscripts formerly in the library of St-Germain des Près).
In the notes below are most contractions silently expanded, and the added painted initials are incorporated with the transcription. Only the line-breaks are rendered as printed on some of the pages for identification.

Bibliography:
H. Bohatta: Bibliographie der Livres d'Heures des xv. und xvi. Jahrhunderts, 2.Aufl., Wien 1924, no. xxx;
P. Lacombe: Livres d'heures imprimés au XVe et XVIe siècle, conservés dans les bibliothèques publiques à Paris, Paris 1906, p.124-125, No.215-216 (Bibl. Nat. Vélins 1609, Bibl. Mazarine Rés.34957);
Hugh W. Davies: Catalogue of a Collection of Early French Books in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray, I-II, London 1910, p.289 (List of illustrations).
Philippe Renouard: Les Marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles, Paris 1926-1928, p., No..
R. Brun: Le livre français illustré de la Renaissance, Paris 1969, p.;