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ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS USE OF ROME. Book of Hours, use of Rome. Paris: Gilles and Germain Hardouyn, [c.1513; almanac for 1513-1527].
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ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS USE OF ROME.
Book of Hours, use of Rome. Paris: Gilles and Germain Hardouyn, [c.1513; almanac for 1513-1527].
8vo (160 x 95 mm). 96 leaves, PRINTED ON VELLUM AND ILLUMINATED, signed a-m in 8s. 31 lines, text ruled in pale red. Metalcut illustrations overpainted in colors and liquid gold to resemble manuscript illuminations: printer's device on first page, 17 full-page illustrations surrounded by architectural borders in liquid gold, one mid-sized illustration surrounded by small uncolored metalcut border pieces (c5v), 3 illuminated vignettes in margins (f7v, g7v, i7r), 26 small illustrations; numerous 2- and 1-line initials in liquid gold on red or blue grounds. Binding of red velvet over wooden boards, salmon-colored silk doublures, edges gilt and gauffred, two clasps consisting of red velvet straps mounted with darkened metal fittings, perhaps tarnished silver; markings on each cover indicate that large, shaped overlays have been removed, perhaps embroidered pieces formerly stitched down; preserved in an elaborate, gilt-tooled morocco case, with the initials R and S inlaid in letter styles of the 19th century; the whole in a red velveteen chemise (slight wear to edges and corners of boards).
Contents: Calendar and associated texts; Gospel Sequences; Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms and Litany; Office of the Dead; Short Hours of the Cross; short Hours of the Holy Spirit; Office of the Conception of the Virgin; Office of St. Barbara; Suffrages of the Saints.
Illuminations: Zodiac Man; John on Patmos; Betrayal in the Garden; the usual sequence for the Hours of the Virgin: Annunciation to the Virgin, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Magi, the Presentation in the Temple, the Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin; Saul Anointing David; the Banquet of Dives and Lazarus; Crucifixion; Pentecost; Annunciation to the Virgin (repeated, this time introducing the Office of the Conception of the Virgin!). Small illuminations accompany each suffrage to a saint.
A fine example of a printed and hand-colored Book of Hours. In the first quarter of the sixteenth century Paris was the center of production for such books, modelled on the manuscript Books of Hours popular in the late Middle Ages, and designed to appeal to members of the wealthy middle class. The brothers Gilles and Germain Hardouyn specialized in printing and decorating these popular texts, Gilles as printer and publisher until his death in 1529 and Germain as illuminator. Bohatta 955; Lacombe 243.
8vo (160 x 95 mm). 96 leaves, PRINTED ON VELLUM AND ILLUMINATED, signed a-m in 8s. 31 lines, text ruled in pale red. Metalcut illustrations overpainted in colors and liquid gold to resemble manuscript illuminations: printer's device on first page, 17 full-page illustrations surrounded by architectural borders in liquid gold, one mid-sized illustration surrounded by small uncolored metalcut border pieces (c5v), 3 illuminated vignettes in margins (f7v, g7v, i7r), 26 small illustrations; numerous 2- and 1-line initials in liquid gold on red or blue grounds. Binding of red velvet over wooden boards, salmon-colored silk doublures, edges gilt and gauffred, two clasps consisting of red velvet straps mounted with darkened metal fittings, perhaps tarnished silver; markings on each cover indicate that large, shaped overlays have been removed, perhaps embroidered pieces formerly stitched down; preserved in an elaborate, gilt-tooled morocco case, with the initials R and S inlaid in letter styles of the 19th century; the whole in a red velveteen chemise (slight wear to edges and corners of boards).
Contents: Calendar and associated texts; Gospel Sequences; Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms and Litany; Office of the Dead; Short Hours of the Cross; short Hours of the Holy Spirit; Office of the Conception of the Virgin; Office of St. Barbara; Suffrages of the Saints.
Illuminations: Zodiac Man; John on Patmos; Betrayal in the Garden; the usual sequence for the Hours of the Virgin: Annunciation to the Virgin, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Magi, the Presentation in the Temple, the Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin; Saul Anointing David; the Banquet of Dives and Lazarus; Crucifixion; Pentecost; Annunciation to the Virgin (repeated, this time introducing the Office of the Conception of the Virgin!). Small illuminations accompany each suffrage to a saint.
A fine example of a printed and hand-colored Book of Hours. In the first quarter of the sixteenth century Paris was the center of production for such books, modelled on the manuscript Books of Hours popular in the late Middle Ages, and designed to appeal to members of the wealthy middle class. The brothers Gilles and Germain Hardouyn specialized in printing and decorating these popular texts, Gilles as printer and publisher until his death in 1529 and Germain as illuminator. Bohatta 955; Lacombe 243.