HORAE, use of Rome

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HORAE, use of Rome

Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Romanum. Paris: Germain Hardouin [1528, almanac for 1528-1545].

Rare Book of Hours printed on vellum, illuminated in gold and colours. Although the large metalcuts are within ovals they have here been finely overpainted in gold and colour to a rectangular format; the illuminator has not simply coloured the cuts beneath but has freely painted over them and extended the painting of the figures beyond the original borders. The Hardouin brothers produced books of hours in various formats, from ordinary copies printed on paper, to those printed on vellum with woodcuts, and the most luxurious, as here, where the entire book was illuminated over the original woodcuts. The subject matter of the fine metalcut borders does not follow the text of the work and combines scenes from the life of Christ, the Saints and the Old Testament alternating with allegorical decorations. Rare: not in Lacombe, Bohatta, Fairfax-Murray or Brunet; closest to Lacombe 377 and Fairfax-Murray 274.



Octavo (183 x 120mm). Hardouin device on title, 16 large metalcuts (2 full-page, 14 half-page), anatomical skeleton surrounded by four small metalcuts of the humours, and 22 smaller cuts, all overpainted and illuminated in gold and colours by a contemporary hand, each large cut with gold painted borders ruled in red, liquid-gold initials and line-filler on alternate red and blue grounds, unpainted metalcut multiple-piece borders to all other pages (outer margin of title trimmed, occasional marginal thumb-mark, spot or stain). Contemporary Parisian calf over thin wooden boards, covers blind-ruled to a panel design, outer two panels filled with blind scrolls, central ‘Gril de St Laurent’ design of vertical strips of repeated motifs in blind, spine covered at a later date with black painted vellum, all edges gilt (rubbed, corners worn).





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