Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme furent acheuees le xvii. iour de Auril. Lan .M.CCCC.iiii.xx. et xvii. pour Simon vostre Libraire demoura[n]t a la rue neueu a lenseigne sainct Jehan leuangeliste

Catholic Church, Pigouchet, Philippe, active 15th century-16th century, printer, Vostre, Simon, active 1488-1520, bookseller, Belton House (Lincolnshire, England), former owner · [Paris : Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre] · 4 pictures

This is a printed Book of Hours issued in Paris by Philippe Pigouchet for the bookseller Simon Vostre, dated 1497 in its colophon, and made for lay devotional use. Its pages are framed by woodcut Gothic architecture and vine borders, with scenes of the Virgin, the Annunciation, the Nativity and a domestic interior, which a designer could take as models for ornate ecclesiastical frames and medieval page layout.

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