Details
HORAE B.M.V., use of Rome. [Paris, ca. 1500]. In French and Latin, PRINTED ON VELLUM, 8° (158 x 108mm), 129 (of possibly 132?) leaves, collation: aa6 (lacks aa1) bb8 cc4 a-d8 e8 (lacks e4.5) f-o8, 26 lines, each section commences with a 3-line illuminated initial, fine and unusual historiated borders throughout, 11 large woodcuts. (Occasional staining and soiling.) Modern blue crushed morocco. Provenance: Lt.Colonel Pechel; Castle Goring (both bookplates).
The woodcuts are unusual and include God ordering the lost souls to Hell and King David on horse surrounded by wild and mythical beasts, an angel with his sword above. Lacking the first leaf with presumably the name of the printer and the almanac, the book is difficult to identify. However, it appears to be unrecorded by Bohatta, Lacombe etc. An earlier owner has attributed it to the Paris printer Denis Meslier, active before 1500, but it is certainly not one of his three recorded Books of Hours.
Included with the lot is another Book of Hours printed on vellum, Paris, Germain Hardouyn, ca. 1510. This is very imperfect and unfortunately lacks all the large woodcuts. (2)
The woodcuts are unusual and include God ordering the lost souls to Hell and King David on horse surrounded by wild and mythical beasts, an angel with his sword above. Lacking the first leaf with presumably the name of the printer and the almanac, the book is difficult to identify. However, it appears to be unrecorded by Bohatta, Lacombe etc. An earlier owner has attributed it to the Paris printer Denis Meslier, active before 1500, but it is certainly not one of his three recorded Books of Hours.
Included with the lot is another Book of Hours printed on vellum, Paris, Germain Hardouyn, ca. 1510. This is very imperfect and unfortunately lacks all the large woodcuts. (2)