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HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French -- Les Heures nostre Dame a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir. Paris: Gilles Hardouin, [calendar for 1509-1520].
PRINTED ON VELLUM, long 8° (143 x 60mm). Collation: a-k8 l4 m6 (a1r small cut, title, a1v almanac for 1509-20, a2r-7r calendar, a7v-B1v Gospel sequence [Martyrdom of St. John, two portrait cuts], B2r-6r Passion according to St. John [Crucifixion], B6r-7r Obsecro te, B7v-c8r Hours of the Virgin: Matins-Lauds [Adam and Eve, Annunciation, Visitation], C8v-F2r Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost, intermingled with Hours of the Virgin: Prime-Compline [Flagellation, Pentecost, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi (x 2), Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin], F2v-3v prayers for saying on weekdays, F4r-8r prayers for saying on Saturday and others, F8v-G5r Seven Penitential Psalms [a Prophet, David], G5r-8r Litany of Saints, G8v-I6v Office of the Dead [a Prophet, Job on his Dungheap], I7r-8v prayers to the Virgin and to St. John the Evangelist, I8v-K5v suffrages, K5v-7v prayers to the Virgin, Missus est Gabriel, K8r-L3v seven prayers to St Gregory, Seven joys of the Virgin, and other prayers in Latin and French, L4r contents, L4v colophon, M1-6 Office of the Immaculate Conception). 90 leaves. Printed in red and black. Type: 58G. 37 lines. 5 half-page and 15 smaller metalcuts, all but that on the title within painted border, ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, liquid-gold initials and line-filler on pink or blue ground, yellow capital strokes. 19th-century red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, vellum endleaves, gilt edges, blue morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Ossory (pencilled collation note, 1831).
ONE OF ONLY TWO COPIES KNOWN. This edition is not recorded in Lacombe or Brunet Heures, and Bohatta and Moreau cite one copy only, that formerly in the collection of Franz Trau, which was imperfect (sale Vienna, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 27-28 October 1905, lot 454, described as lacking 3 leaves and 'extrêmement rare'). While the two copies agree in most regards, they are apparently variants, differing slightly in the imprint on the title-page. The present copy reads: Imp[ri]mees a paris par Gillet Hardouyn demou au bout du po[n]t no stre Dame deuant sainct Denis de la chartre a lenseigne de la Rose. Bohatta 897; Moreau, Inv. chronologique des éditions Parisiennes, 1509, no.109.
PRINTED ON VELLUM, long 8° (143 x 60mm). Collation: a-k8 l4 m6 (a1r small cut, title, a1v almanac for 1509-20, a2r-7r calendar, a7v-B1v Gospel sequence [Martyrdom of St. John, two portrait cuts], B2r-6r Passion according to St. John [Crucifixion], B6r-7r Obsecro te, B7v-c8r Hours of the Virgin: Matins-Lauds [Adam and Eve, Annunciation, Visitation], C8v-F2r Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost, intermingled with Hours of the Virgin: Prime-Compline [Flagellation, Pentecost, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi (x 2), Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin], F2v-3v prayers for saying on weekdays, F4r-8r prayers for saying on Saturday and others, F8v-G5r Seven Penitential Psalms [a Prophet, David], G5r-8r Litany of Saints, G8v-I6v Office of the Dead [a Prophet, Job on his Dungheap], I7r-8v prayers to the Virgin and to St. John the Evangelist, I8v-K5v suffrages, K5v-7v prayers to the Virgin, Missus est Gabriel, K8r-L3v seven prayers to St Gregory, Seven joys of the Virgin, and other prayers in Latin and French, L4r contents, L4v colophon, M1-6 Office of the Immaculate Conception). 90 leaves. Printed in red and black. Type: 58G. 37 lines. 5 half-page and 15 smaller metalcuts, all but that on the title within painted border, ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, liquid-gold initials and line-filler on pink or blue ground, yellow capital strokes. 19th-century red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, vellum endleaves, gilt edges, blue morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Ossory (pencilled collation note, 1831).
ONE OF ONLY TWO COPIES KNOWN. This edition is not recorded in Lacombe or Brunet Heures, and Bohatta and Moreau cite one copy only, that formerly in the collection of Franz Trau, which was imperfect (sale Vienna, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 27-28 October 1905, lot 454, described as lacking 3 leaves and 'extrêmement rare'). While the two copies agree in most regards, they are apparently variants, differing slightly in the imprint on the title-page. The present copy reads: Imp[ri]mees a paris par Gillet Hardouyn demou au bout du po[n]t no stre Dame deuant sainct Denis de la chartre a lenseigne de la Rose. Bohatta 897; Moreau, Inv. chronologique des éditions Parisiennes, 1509, no.109.
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