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Book of Hours

Lot 22
28.04.2021 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 11 250
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 519311
Lot 22 | Book of Hours
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
Book of Hours
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, [after 1492].
A rare, finely illuminated Book of Hours printed by Pigouchet, known in only 5 other copies. 'Among the printers of the beautifully decorated French Books of Hours in the XVth and early XVIth Centuries, Pigouchet is pre-eminent' (Davies, Murray French, I, p.265). Although its almanac commences for the year 1488, the present Pigouchet Hours was unlikely to have been printed before 1492, when his type 3 (81B) was introduced; the metalcuts too are not found in editions confidently datable to before 1492. The majority of the more than 75 pre-1501 editions printed by Pigouchet for himself or for other publishers contained an almanac for either 1488-1508 or 1489-1508, even when they were printed as late as 16 September 1498. Their continued use points to the standardisation that had come to characterise Books of Hours, both manuscript and printed, by the final years of the 15th century. Rare; only one copy in America (Morgan Library) and none in the UK or Germany. Brunet Heures 2; Bohatta(1924) 508; C 3074; GW 13135; Goff H-364; Lacombe 6; ISTC ih00370520.

Printed on vellum, median octavo (162 x 105mm). 96 leaves (of 100, lacking C1, E3, 4 and 6). Large metalcut Pigouchet device, anatomical man, and 15 (of 18) full-page metalcuts from Pigouchet's set 1 (cf. Davies) finely illuminated in gold and colours by a contemporary hand, 30 smaller metalcut portraits, multiple-piece ornamental and historiated border, those surrounding large cuts coloured and illuminated, one- and 2-line initials and paragraph marks in blue, ms. guide-letters, ruled in red. Outer formes printed on the flesh-side and inner formes printed on the hair-side of the vellum sheets. (Very slight rubbing to painted miniatures, slight bleeding through of colouring, names of 3 saints erased from H1v.) Early 20th-century blue morocco tooled in gilt, the sides panelled with blue-green morocco on-lays and tooled in blind reminiscent of the 15th century, vellum endleaves, old gilt and gauffered edges, signed by Rivière and Son (short crack at upper hinge).
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