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HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Paris: Gilles Hardouin, [almanac for 1514-1529].
PRINTED ON VELLUM. 8° (228 x 140mm). Collation: A-L8, 88 leaves. Gothic type. 21 full-page and 26 smaller metal cuts coloured in a comtemporary hand, full-page printer's devices to A1r and L8v uncoloured, elaborate metal cut borders, liquid gold initials on blue or pink ground. (Light discoloration to first and final leaves, some margins a little thumbed, sometimes touching cuts, or with very minor staining, small areas of paint loss to some images.) Late 19th-century blind-tooled brown morocco by Chambolle-Duru, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt (just rubbed at extremities).
This edition includes a full cycle of Hardouin's 4° illustrations, and also 9 of his 8° cuts as well as charming series of border pieces illustrating the siege of Jerusalem. It was also issued with a further 8-leaf quire M, containing the Sept Psaumes and an Oraison tresdeutoe a notre dame; its inclusion seems to have been "quite a matter of choice" (Davies, Murray French, p. 314), reflecting the high degree of personalisation to be found in printed books of hours. Brunet V, 1636 no. 244; Davies, Murray French, 273; Lacombe 255.
PRINTED ON VELLUM. 8° (228 x 140mm). Collation: A-L
This edition includes a full cycle of Hardouin's 4° illustrations, and also 9 of his 8° cuts as well as charming series of border pieces illustrating the siege of Jerusalem. It was also issued with a further 8-leaf quire M, containing the Sept Psaumes and an Oraison tresdeutoe a notre dame; its inclusion seems to have been "quite a matter of choice" (Davies, Murray French, p. 314), reflecting the high degree of personalisation to be found in printed books of hours. Brunet V, 1636 no. 244; Davies, Murray French, 273; Lacombe 255.
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