[Liturgy] Missale secundum ritum insignis ecclesiae Eduensis, Paris, 1530, Parisian brown mottled calf gilt

LITURGY. MISSAL. AUTUN, SAÔNE-ET-LOIRE. Missale secundum ritum insignis ecclesiae Eduensis sacerdotibus eiusdem ecclesie perquam necessarium. Ipsi enim missam celebrare intendentes quo pacto ad diuinum officium. Paris: Jean Petit & Jean Kerbriant, March 1530

A fine example of a contemporary Parisian binding by the "Pecking Crow Binder", thus named for "this atelier's most prominent tool, a bird pecking at grain... The bindings from this shop cover books or manuscripts, written or printed between [1497] and 1550" (Henry Davis Gift). This workshop produced bindings for François I, Jean Grolier and Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle.

8vo (185 x 117 mm). Gothic type: 42 lines plus headline. Collation: a⁸ a-v⁸ aa-hh⁸ ii¹⁰ A-D⁸ E¹⁰: 284 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, printed in red and black, initials illuminated in yellow.

Binding: Parisian brown mottled calf over wooden boards (192 x 132 mm), by the Pecking Crow Binder, late 1530s, border with elongated arabesques, azured fleurons, and solid fleurons at corners, inner border of arabesque lace, inner eight-sided elongated frame of straight and curved fillets, arabesque cornerpieces, in centre a cartouche composed of solid arabesques and azured fleurons enclosing a hand holding a flowering branch on which perches a small pecking crow, surmounted by an open crown, traces of 2 clasps, edges gilt and gauffered. (Spine ends renewed).

Provenance: Claude Loysel (d.1571), title-page with ownership inscription (struck through in ink by a later owner) and motto "O[mn]ia Va[n]itas" (same motto on Loysel's tomb in Notre-Dame de Beaune) — Vivant-Augustin Ganiare (1698-1781), doctor of medicine, partly-erased purchase inscription with initials "v.g." and date 1730 on flyleaf — Antoine Gandelot (1714-1785), gift inscription dated 1771 — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), booklabel — Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, catalogue 106, item 33. Acquisition: Purchased in 1989 from Martin Breslauer Inc. References: BP16 106415; USTC 185039; Exposition de reliures de la Renaissance: collection Jean Furstenberg, 30 September 1961 (Paris 1961), no. 77