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HORAE, use of Rome, in French. Heures a lusaige de Rome nouvellement imprimees esquelles a plusieurs belles hystoires de la bible avec les figures de lapocalipse et plusieurs austres. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 22 June 1506.
8o (181 x 113 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: a-p8 q4. 124 leaves. Gothic type, ruled in red. Large printer's device on title, metalcut Anatomical Man, 18 large metalcuts from the Master of the Apocalypse Rose, and 30 small metalcuts, full multi-part historiated and ornamental border on each page, initials and line-filler in liquid gold on red or blue ground. Contemporary French blind-rolled brown goatskin over wooden boards with narrow roll-tool fleurs-de-lis design, two brass clasps and catches (chipping to upper spine end, lower spine end neatly repaired); cloth folding case. Provenance: HANS IMHOF (1461-1522), Nuremberg merchant and son-in-law of Willibald Pirckheimer ("Hannesen Imhoffs zu Nuremberg" inscription dated 1513 on front paste-down); Donauwörth, Benedictines, Heiligen Kreuz, Abbot Gallus Hammerl (inscription dated 1784 "Bibl. S. Crucis Werdeae" and bookplate); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1977.
The almanac (A1v) for the years 1506-1530. The present Book of Hours contains Kerver's set of full-page metalcuts attributed to the Master of the Apocalypse Rose, including "Maria Immaculata," which had first appeared in December 1502. AN IMPORTANT PROVENANCE: The Imhof family amassed immense wealth from the spice trade and had offices throughout Europe, and until his death in 1522 the firm was headed by the merchant and banker Hans Imhof. The family provided important and discriminating patrons of art in their own city and none more so than Hans who was a friend of Albrecht Dürer and the sculptor Adam Kraft. His father in law was the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer. Thielman Kerver, a native of Coblenz, was the last in a line of printers to take over the firm originally founded by Ulrich Gering. Soon after his first appearance as libraire in 1497, Kerver set up his own press in partnership with Georg Wolf, with material from Wolf's previous association with Johann Philippi. Printing largely for other publishers, during the first few years Kerver's output was evenly divided between classical and humanist texts and Books of Hours; it was later weighted more heavily to production of the more lucrative liturgical texts. He continued printing until his death in 1522. Bohatta 821; Brunet V: Heures, 180; See Fairfax Murray French 265 (1505 edition) and Harvard/Mortimer French 294 (1505 edition).
8o (181 x 113 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: a-p8 q4. 124 leaves. Gothic type, ruled in red. Large printer's device on title, metalcut Anatomical Man, 18 large metalcuts from the Master of the Apocalypse Rose, and 30 small metalcuts, full multi-part historiated and ornamental border on each page, initials and line-filler in liquid gold on red or blue ground. Contemporary French blind-rolled brown goatskin over wooden boards with narrow roll-tool fleurs-de-lis design, two brass clasps and catches (chipping to upper spine end, lower spine end neatly repaired); cloth folding case. Provenance: HANS IMHOF (1461-1522), Nuremberg merchant and son-in-law of Willibald Pirckheimer ("Hannesen Imhoffs zu Nuremberg" inscription dated 1513 on front paste-down); Donauwörth, Benedictines, Heiligen Kreuz, Abbot Gallus Hammerl (inscription dated 1784 "Bibl. S. Crucis Werdeae" and bookplate); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1977.
The almanac (A1v) for the years 1506-1530. The present Book of Hours contains Kerver's set of full-page metalcuts attributed to the Master of the Apocalypse Rose, including "Maria Immaculata," which had first appeared in December 1502. AN IMPORTANT PROVENANCE: The Imhof family amassed immense wealth from the spice trade and had offices throughout Europe, and until his death in 1522 the firm was headed by the merchant and banker Hans Imhof. The family provided important and discriminating patrons of art in their own city and none more so than Hans who was a friend of Albrecht Dürer and the sculptor Adam Kraft. His father in law was the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer. Thielman Kerver, a native of Coblenz, was the last in a line of printers to take over the firm originally founded by Ulrich Gering. Soon after his first appearance as libraire in 1497, Kerver set up his own press in partnership with Georg Wolf, with material from Wolf's previous association with Johann Philippi. Printing largely for other publishers, during the first few years Kerver's output was evenly divided between classical and humanist texts and Books of Hours; it was later weighted more heavily to production of the more lucrative liturgical texts. He continued printing until his death in 1522. Bohatta 821; Brunet V: Heures, 180; See Fairfax Murray French 265 (1505 edition) and Harvard/Mortimer French 294 (1505 edition).