HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French –

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£ 7 000 – 10 000
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10.07.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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Los 138 | HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French –
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].
An elegant Book of Hours, fully illustrated with Hardouin’s Medallion Series metalcuts, all illuminated in gold and colours. The Medallion series cuts are not described by Davies (although used in Davies, Fairfax Murray French, 274). Here they have been overpainted to a rectangular format, obscuring the oval medallion frame beneath. Two of the cuts (the first Annunciation, Annunciation to the Shepherds) are full-page and do not belong to the series; the first Annunciation is redundant here, preceding a medallion Annunciation image, and no cut of the Annunciation to the Shepherds is known in the medallion series (see Bibermühle collection, pp.1025-1026). Closely related to, but not identical with, Lacombe 377; not in Brunet Heures.

Printed on vellum, octavo (184 x 118mm). 96 leaves, roman type, 16 large metalcuts (2 full-page, 14 half-page), large Hardouin device, anatomical skeleton, and 22 smaller cuts, illuminated in gold and colours by a contemporary hand, an armorial [possibly of the Glanz d'Eicha family] painted on device, red-ruled gold painted border to each large cut, multiple-piece ornamental or historiated border (unpainted) to all other pages, liquid-gold initials and line-filler on alternate pink and blue ground, yellow capital strokes, ruled in red (stain at upper corner of last 3 leaves). 20th-century blindtooled brown morocco by L. Claessens, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges (minor wear at hinges). Provenance: ?Glanz d'Eicha family of Bohemia (armorial) – Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923; bookplate) – Frank Hammond (bookseller, catalogue description tipped in) – William Foyle (sale Christie’s, 11 July 2000, lot 202; booklabel).
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