Rare, with only one other copy found online, featuring different coloring and described as a manuscript. If both copies were truly manuscripts, they would have required a pantograph or similar method, though we cannot confirm this and know of no other books produced in such a manner. Searches in libraries have proved fruitless.
Petit Livre d’Heures. No place, no publisher, no date but before 1912, 32 leaves, 63 finely painted pages with ornate text, borders, and historiated initials. Repeated borders feature floral patterns, the host and chalice, and dragons. Contents include Prayers before Mass, The Confession, Prayers during Mass, The Commencement of the Mass, The Creed, The Offertory, The Preface, The Sanctus, The Canon, The Elevation of the Host, The Pater Noster, The Agnus Dei, The Benediction, and more.
Bound in full leather.
Initialed by the colorist
Presentation from a father to his daughter
