Petit office de la Ste. Vierge
Subtitle: élévations durant la Ste. Messe et autres priéres tirées de la Ste. Écriture
By: par M. de la Baume du Perret ; écrit et' grau'e par L. Senavlt
Publisher: Chez led. Senault Rüe de Bussi au Fauxbourg st. Germain a la Croix blanche; Chez N. Du val, Me. écriuain juré a Paris, rüe de Paris, au Soleil leuant
Published: 1680
Place of publication: A Paris; et à Versailles
Language: fre
Number of pages: 264
Work titles: Book of hours
Notes: "Dédiés a Madame la Davphine."

Signatures: pi² A-H⁴ I² L-Z⁴ a-i⁴l-m⁴.

First edition. cf. D. Becker, Practice of letters (Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1987), no. 83.

All engraved; decorated with historiated initials, borders with floral, landscape, and/or calligraphic decorations; each page panelled with double rules; head and tail-pieces.

"Senault is also known for engraving the entire text and decorations of a noted small-format book of hours in imitation of a calligraphic manuscript. It first was published by Senault himself and the writing master Nicolas Duval as Petit office de la Ste. Vierge, ca. 1680. Later issues came out under the title Heures nouvelles dédiée à Madame la Dauphine and Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture ... Various issues have been identified depending upon whether the folios are numbered and the siren's breasts are covered or not in the headpiece on e3r ..." D. Becker, Practice of letters, no. 83. In this copy the folios are not numbered and the siren's breasts are not covered.