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HORAE, use of Rome (Spanish). Las Horas de nuestra señora segun el uso romano. Lyons: Mathias Bonhomme for Guillaume Rouillé 1551. 8vo, 190 x 120 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.), French binding of C. 1578, vellum over flexible pasteboard lining, covers and flat spine with repeated gilt monogram of Charlotte Du Tillet (an "S" with a slash through it around edges), within diaper design of intersecting gilt fillets with added gilt tooling, g.e., lacking ties, one corner cut away, a bit rubbed, few small stains, manuscript ex dono leaves worn and soiled, the second torn slightly at bottom, A1 fore-edge frayed, 2-inch tear to K1, small stain to L8r obscuring 3 letters, occasional marginal soiling or foxing . RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, roman type, printed in red and black, 17 large wood or metalcuts, including one repeat, by Pierre Vase or Eskrich, most signed with his initials PV, 46 small cuts, 43 different four-part page-borders, most of grotesques, a few of arabesques. Baudrier 9:191; Bohatta 1578; Brunet V, 1676, no. 384; Harvard/Mortimer French 311. Bound in at front are two presentation leaves, the first lettered in fine calligraphic majuscules in gold ink within gilt-rule border: "Pour Tresdevote et Tresreligieuse Damlle. Charlote Du Tillet Hostesse du Coeur Triumphant [ sic ]", the second with a six-line poem in brown ink in the same fine, clear hand within a gilt-rule border, "1578" written below in gold ink with two large flourishes. Charlotte Du Tillet appears to have been the daughter of the humanist and historian Jean Du Tillet, sieur de la Bussière (d. 1570), chief clerk of the Parlement of Paris and Secretary to the King, chiefly known as the first scholar to use archival documents for the study of French history. Provenance : Charlotte Du Tillet, as above; with inscription on front free endpaper confirming that this copy was listed in the inventaire of Mlle. Du Tillet, dated Feb. 1636, signed Delamotiere Michon -- A. Brölemann, engraved armorial bookplate.