Book of Hours

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Book of Hours

Horae, use of Rome c. 1528-45.

HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French – Hore beate marie virginis secundum usum Romanum totaliter ad longum sine require com multis suffragiis & orationibus de novo additis. Paris: for Germain Hardouin [n.d., almanac for 1528-1545].



Printed on vellum and illuminated throughout in gold and colours by a contemporary hand. Although Davies described a copy of this edition, unusual by having painted, not metalcut, borders, he did not enumerate the woodcuts, perhaps owing to their invisibility beneath heavy overpainting. They clearly differ from Hardouin's previous sets, and, while following a similar cycle of subjects, they add cuts for the Agony in the Garden, Adam and Eve, the Virgin in a mandorla, and Job on his dungheap. In spite of the break in collation, the table of contents makes it clear that the book is complete without quire L. Davies, Murray German, 274. Not in Brunet or Lacombe.



Octavo (166 x 104mm). Printed on vellum. 88 leaves. 16 large metalcuts, large Hardouin device, planetary man, and 25 smaller cuts, illuminated in gold and colours by a contemporary hand, to a rectangular format although the metalcuts beneath - some of which are only partly coloured - are within oval medallion, an armorial painted on device, red-ruled gold painted border to each page, liquid-gold initials and line-filler on alternate pink and blue ground, yellow capital strokes (a few borders just fractionally cropped by the binder). Contemporary French calf tooled in blind with vertical rolls, edges with later gilding (spine repaired and with later gilt lettering, sides rubbed). Provenance: small passages deleted by crossing through; coat-of-arms painted on first leaf – William Foyle (booklabel; sale Christie’s 11-13 July 2000, lot 203).

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