HORAE, Use of Rome. Hore beate marie virginis s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum ecclesie romane totaliter ad longum cum multis suffragiis et orationibus. Paris: Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin, [ca 1521, calendar for 1521-1540].
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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Lot Description
HORAE, Use of Rome. Hore beate marie virginis s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum ecclesie romane totaliter ad longum cum multis suffragiis et orationibus. Paris: Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin, [ca 1521, calendar for 1521-1540].
8vo (179 x 111mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. 104 leaves (but 106, including 4 inserted leaves: 2 additional in quires C and D and 2 apparently replacements in quires C and E), 23 lines (24 lines on inserted leaves), gothic letter, large metalcut device on title [Renouard, 434; Silvestre, 57], 14 large metalcuts (2 on inserted leaves), and 15 small metalcuts of the Evangelists and Saints within text (one on inserted leaf), all illuminated in colors and gold, the large miniatures within illuminated architectural borders, some borders illuminated when facing miniatures; woodblock borders, initials supplied in gold on blue and rose grounds. (Title a little soiled and with border rubbed, occasional soiling or rubbing to some other leaves, some leaves at end damp-wrinkled with slight discoloration, a few old vellum imperfections). 19th-century black morocco gilt; morocco folding case. Provenance: some early inscriptions (partially deleted) on title.
The illumination of this copy, presumably carried out in Hardouin's atelier, is finely executed. Lacombe, 316-319; Bohatta, 1062; Renouard, III, 134 (BP16_104295); Van Praet, I, nos 137, 138 et 139; see Brunet V: Heures.
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