Commendationes defunctorum
Subtitle: officium singulare et devotum cum oratio [and]Cerimonie ad inungendum infirmas.
Contributors: Bonhomme, Yolande.
Publisher: Yolande Bonhomme [widow of Thielmann Kerver
Published: 1546
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Prayers for the dead
Other titles: Libellus hic psalterium commune et plerosque hymnos ordinis Fontisebraldi continens.
Notes: 28 lines in 1 col., Gothic type in red and black; MS alterations to change plural pronouns to singular; nouns and pronouns have feminine forms, with masculine forms following in parentheses.

One single wood engraving on t.p: Memento mori, man embracing a cross, a dead man with a scythe, and a skeleton with scythe, a banderolle inscribed "Vigilate ergo nescitis diem neque horem.' At end of 11 Psalm leaves: arms of Louise de Bourbon, abbess of Fontevrault: crown of thorns surrounding 3 fleurs-de-lis, cross with nails at base, on each side the initials L and B with crowns, the whole surmounted by Ihesus Maria.

Light blue Lortic binding with a seme of the cipher of Charles-Louis de Bourbon, duke of Parma (2 C's enclosing a V [Villafranca], surmounted by a crown, in gold, this also repeated on the spine, which is stamped with the title 'Comm. def. ad usum Fontebraldensis. 1546'; elaborate dentelles, g.e.; in a darker tone blue morocco pull-off box also by Lortic, stamped in gold 'Commen. defunctorum ad usum Fontebraldensis. Parisis. 1546.'

Bookplate of Charles-Louis de Bourbon (Parma Library, no. 295; bookplate of Charles van der Elt.

Al°es Parma 295; Lacombe 436; Bohatta, Parma'schen Bibliothek, 508 and 509, lists this work and the psalter consisting of 195 leaves, probably the source of the 11 leaves bound at the end; not in Adam or NUC.

Acquired from H.P. Kraus Rare Books, New York, no date, for US $5,200,000.

Added at end: fols. clxxxvi-cxcvi of Libellus hic psalterium commune et plerosque hymnos ordinis Fontisebraldi continens. Paris : Yolande Bonhomme, 8 August, 1554.