[HEURES à l'USAGE de BESANÇON]. Heures a lusaige de Besenson - Lot 74

[HEURES à l'USAGE de BESANÇON]. Heures a lusaige de Besenson tout // au long sans requerir. Auec plusieurs // belles oraisons, ont este imprimees. [On the colophon:] Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Besenson // tout au long sans rien requerir ont este nouuellement // imprimees a Paris pour Guillaume godard libraire // demourant sur le Pont au change Deuant lorloge // du palays a l'enseigne de Lhomme sauuaige. [Paris, Guillaume Godard, s. d. (circa 1520)]. In-4° (155 x 234 mm), brown morocco, wide gilt fanfare decoration on boards, ornate smooth spine, gilt edges (period binding). 99 ff. (of 100), signed: A-M8 & N4. The table of Easter feasts "Tabula ad inueniendum mo bilia festa" covers the years 1521 to 1533. Text in Gothic script, in Latin and French, with 29 lines per page. Initials painted in red and blue; publisher's mark (spelled "Godart") on title, anatomical figure (f. A2) & SEIZE OTHER BIG ENGRAVED WOODWORKS; wide ornate border framing each page. f. B3 in deficit; four or five old handwritten annotations (one or two words) at the bottom of the page, including a signature "François Jobine" (f. E8); old dampstaining at the bottom of several leaves; skilful restorations; renewed endpapers; the shield bearing the publisher's initials was covered in the 17th century with a watercolored coat of arms. A fine copy of these rare, lavishly illustrated "Great Hours" for the use of BESANÇON. Saint Ferréol and Saint Ferjeux ("Ferruci"), first evangelizers of Franche-Comté in the 3rd century and patron saints of Besançon, are featured in the Litany of Saints (H2 v°). Brunet Heures gothiques 31; Lacombe 261.