Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Nouvelles Heures gravées au burin dediées au Roy
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| Other authors / contributors: | Senault, Louis, active 1669-1680.
Langlois, Nicolas, 1640-1703, publisher.
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| Provenance: | Former owner's illustrated bookplate: Ex libris Georges Huillet, no. 54.
Initials, head- and tail-pieces, and borders elaborately hand colored throughout.
Binding: full red morocco over boards; gold ruling and lettering; five raised bands on spine; inner gilt dentelles; green silk doublures and free endpapers; gilt over hidden marbled edges.
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| Notes: | Engraved throughout: decorated with historiated initials, floral, landscape, and/or calligraphic decorations, head and tail pieces; text within double rules.
"Senault is also known for engraving the entire text and decorations of a noted small-format book of hours in imitation of a calligraphic manuscript. It first was published by Senault himself and the writing master Nicolas Duval as Petit office de la Ste. Vierge, ca. 1680. Later issues came out under the title Heures nouvelles dédiée à Madame la dauphine and Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture ... Various issues have been identified depending upon whether the folios are numbered and the siren's breasts are covered or not in the head-piece on e3r ..." D. Becker, Practice of letters (Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1997). In this issue the pages are numbered and incorporate the signatures at the top left hand of each page and only the first signature is shown.
Date of publication from Bonacini.
Bonacini, C. Bibliografia delle arti scrittorie e della calligrafia, entry 561
Prayers are in French or Latin.
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