细节
5 December 1497
HORAE, use of Rome -- Horae beatiss. virginis secundum consuetudinem romanae curiae, Gk. -Septem psalmi poenitentiales cum laetaniis & orationibus, Gk. Median full-sheet 16° (117 x 83mm). Collation: α-φ8 (title in Greek and Latin, woodcut on verso, text in Greek throughout, colophon on recto of final leaf, verso blank). 112 leaves. A single paper stock, but the half sheet forming the reset quire κ taken from a different stock. Greek type 2:114 throughout, roman 2:114 (title only). 13 lines, catchwords and signatures. Printed in red and black, in two pulls; title, headings, rubrics, capitals, typographical initials, woodcut vinebranch initials and floral headpieces, all in red. Annunciation woodcut (72 x 55mm), printed in black from the same block as that employed by Johann Hamman for his Latin Horae of 1493 (Essling 456).
BINDING: crushed red morocco, gilt roll-tooled borders on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, signed by Chambolle-Duru. PROVENANCE: no evidence of early or recent ownership, but in VERY FINE 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH BIBLIOPHILE CONDITION, the paper lightly washed, resized and pressed, and in an elegant jansenist-style binding
FIRST EDITION of the Greek Book of Hours. Quire κ of this copy is in the extremely rare setting A, so designated by Bühler, who argued that it represented a first state ("issue"); however, the paper strongly indicates that A is a replacement setting or resetting of the original setting B, whose much more common occurrence Bühler calculated in the ratio of eight to one. This little illustrated book is perhaps Aldus's most beautiful, and it is surely one of his rarest on the market (no complete copy has appeared at auction since the Morgan duplicate sale in 1971). HR 8830; BMC V, 558; Goff H-391; IGI 4870; Bohatta 1484; C.F. Bühler, "Notes on two incunabula printed by Aldus Manutius," PBSA 36 (1942) p. 18-26; Laurenziana 19; In Praise p. 46; R 15:13
HORAE, use of Rome -- Horae beatiss. virginis secundum consuetudinem romanae curiae, Gk. -Septem psalmi poenitentiales cum laetaniis & orationibus, Gk. Median full-sheet 16° (117 x 83mm). Collation: α-φ8 (title in Greek and Latin, woodcut on verso, text in Greek throughout, colophon on recto of final leaf, verso blank). 112 leaves. A single paper stock, but the half sheet forming the reset quire κ taken from a different stock. Greek type 2:114 throughout, roman 2:114 (title only). 13 lines, catchwords and signatures. Printed in red and black, in two pulls; title, headings, rubrics, capitals, typographical initials, woodcut vinebranch initials and floral headpieces, all in red. Annunciation woodcut (72 x 55mm), printed in black from the same block as that employed by Johann Hamman for his Latin Horae of 1493 (Essling 456).
BINDING: crushed red morocco, gilt roll-tooled borders on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, signed by Chambolle-Duru. PROVENANCE: no evidence of early or recent ownership, but in VERY FINE 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH BIBLIOPHILE CONDITION, the paper lightly washed, resized and pressed, and in an elegant jansenist-style binding
FIRST EDITION of the Greek Book of Hours. Quire κ of this copy is in the extremely rare setting A, so designated by Bühler, who argued that it represented a first state ("issue"); however, the paper strongly indicates that A is a replacement setting or resetting of the original setting B, whose much more common occurrence Bühler calculated in the ratio of eight to one. This little illustrated book is perhaps Aldus's most beautiful, and it is surely one of his rarest on the market (no complete copy has appeared at auction since the Morgan duplicate sale in 1971). HR 8830; BMC V, 558; Goff H-391; IGI 4870; Bohatta 1484; C.F. Bühler, "Notes on two incunabula printed by Aldus Manutius," PBSA 36 (1942) p. 18-26; Laurenziana 19; In Praise p. 46; R 15:13