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HORAE, use of Rome

Lot 113
14.12.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 113 | HORAE, use of Rome
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HORAE, use of Rome

Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Romanum. [Paris: Philippe Pigouchet pour Simon Vostre, c.1504, almanac for 1502-1520]

Rare book of hours finely printed on vellum by Simon Vostre, preserving the strictly contemporary Parisian calf covers. The decorative and historiated borders featured in Books of Hours reached their height in editions of Pigouchet and Vostre. This edition is profusely illustrated with 18 full page woodcuts, a smaller set of woodcuts in the text and a remarkable set of woodcut borders including a complete dance of death (masculine and feminine) all based on designs by Jean Pichore and Jean d’Ypres (also known as the Master of Anne de Bretagne or the Master of the Apocalypse Rose). Rare: not in Lacombe, Fairfax-Murray or Brunet. Bohatta 752.



Octavo (184 x 114mm). Printed on vellum. 140 leaves. Ruled in red. Printer’s device of two leopards (Renouard 1107) on title, 18 full-page metalcuts within metalcut architectural borders, smaller metalcuts in the text, several hundred multi-piece border metalcuts, rubricated with liquid-gold initials on alternate red and blue grounds of 1 or 2 lines (occasional minor marginal mark or stain). Contemporary Parisian calf over thin wooden boards, covers blind-ruled to a panel design, central ‘Gril de St Laurent’ design of vertical strips of repeated floral motifs in blind (rebacked, foot of upper joint starting). Provenance: contemporary manuscript ‘Ave Maria’ prayer on endpaper – pencil note on pastedown ascribes former ownership to the Prince d’Essling – Lucien and André Tissot Dupont (morocco label on pastedown, monogram label on endpaper; sale, Paris, Picard Audap Solanet & Associés, 18-19 October 2016, lot 245).





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Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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