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38 - [PRINTED HOURS]. Hours for the use of Rome.
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[PRINTED HOURS]. Hours for the use of Rome. Heures à l'usaige de Ro[m]me sans riens requerir imprimées a Paris le .xix. jour du mois de juing mil cinq cens et trois Paris, Antoine Vérard, 19 June 1503 [Almanac for the years 1497-1520]. In Latin and French, printed on vellum; one manuscript flyleaf. With 17 large engravings, 31 small engravings (engravings enhanced in period colours); historiated engraved borders, some with sieved backgrounds. Engravings based on models by the Master of the Très petites Heures d'Anne de Bretagne (Master of the Rose de l'Apocalypse in the Sainte-Chapelle [MdA]) ["MdA für Vérard"; "Kleinbildfolge MdA für Vérard"]. Large in-8, 100 ff, preceded by three ruled endpapers (one of which written) and followed by two ruled parchment leaves, complete [collation: a-l8 m4 A8], copy rubricated in red, gold and blue, typographical mark to enhanced title. Bound in havana calf, cold-stamped fillets extending from the nerves, terminated by a cold-stamped fleur-de-lys on the inner edge of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated with cold-stamped motifs, edges gilt (binding produced by the Atelier des Orphelins d'Apprentis d'Auteuil, 1992: handwritten note: "This period-style binding was produced in 1992 at the Atelier des Orphelins Apprentis d'Auteuil. It replaces a dilapidated eighteenth-century binding which had, unfortunately, damaged the upper part of the pages. The original boards and threads have been kept under the skin. Details of the price of the binding are given on the back.) Spine slightly faded. Top margins a little short, with damage to the frames of the last leaves. Size of binding: 205 x 140 mm; size of leaves: 197 x 130 mm. Brunet, Hours, no. 135. - Bohatta, 765 - Lacombe, 130 and 131 - Moreau, I, 1503, 68. - Macfarlane, Antoine Vérard, London, 1900, n°228: "The large cuts, to the number of 15, and the small subjects in the borders, are evidently imitated from Vostre's editions....". Complete with the last 8 leaves containing the "Sept pseaumes en françois translatez au plus près du latin" and "Sept oraysons saint Gregoire", not listed by Brunet and Bohatta, but mentioned by Lacombe. Copy in the BnF (Velins-1505): note that the almanac is for the years 1497-1520 and not 1503-1520 as indicated in the BnF catalogue. The BnF copy does not include the last quire A1-A8 and is incomplete with sig. b8. - Chantilly, Musée Condé, XIV-F-001 (incomplete with sig. a2 and c8). Precious and rare Gothic book of hours on vellum, printed by Antoine Vérard with his mark on the title. The edition is lavishly illustrated with 17 large woodcuts, 31 small engravings in the text, and a framing border on each page: grotesques with sifted backgrounds, biblical scenes, dances of the dead, etc. On the series of engravings used by Vérard (and other printers such as Jean Poitevin (Tenschert and Nettekoven, I, nos. 22 and 23)), based on models by the Master of the Très Petites Heures d'Anne de Bretagne, see Nettekoven, "Die Holz- und Metallschnittserie für Anthoine Vérard", in Tenschert and Nettekoven, Horae B. M. V.: 158 Stundenbuchdrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle, Ramsen, 2003, I, p. 128. It is interesting to note that Vérard worked closely with the Maître des Très Petites Heures d'Anne de Bretagne and the artist himself illuminated his own engravings, for example in the Danse macabre historiée de Charles VIII (Paris, Gillet Couteau and Jean Ménard for Pierre Le Rouge and Anthoine Vérard, c. 1491-1492; copy Paris, BnF, dép. des estampes et de la photographie, T 8 fol. rés.) and the dedication engraving of an Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir (Paris, Anthoine Vérard, 15 July 1492; copy in San Marino, Huntington Library, HEHL RB 38182). On this artist, see lot 37. Text ff. 3-3v (third guard at head), Extract from the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Liber generacionis iesu christi... [manuscript, early 16th century handwriting, bastard script in light brown ink]. - Sig. a1, Title and typographical mark. - Sig. a1v, Anatomical man. - Sig. a2, Almanac for the years 1497-1520 - Sig. a2v, Measurement of the wound of Christ. - Sig. a3-a8v, Calendar. - Sig. b1-b7, Gospel pericopes and Passion according to Saint John. - Sig. b7v-f8v, Hours for the use of Rome. - Sig. g1-g8, Penitential psalms and litanies. - Sig. h1-i8, Office of the Dead. - Sig. i8v-m2, Suffrages and prayers. - Sig. m2v-m4v, Office of the Conception of the Virgin. - Sig. A1-A8v, "Sept pseaumes en françois translatez au plus près du latin"; "Orayson tresdevote a nostre seigneur"; "Sept oraysons saint Gregoire". Illustration Sig. a1, Typographical mark of Antoine Vérard. - Sig. a1v, Anatomical man - Sig. a2v, Holy Grail and wound of Christ. - Sig. b1, Martyrdom of Saint John. - Sig. b2, Saint Luke. - Sig. b2v, Saint Matthew. - Sig. b3, Saint Mark. - Sig. b3v, Betrayal of Judas and Arrest of Jesus. - Sig. b7v, Annunciation. - Sig. c6, Visitation. - Sig. d2v, Crucifixion. - Sig. d3v, Pentecost. - Sig. d4v, Nativity. - Sig. d7, Adoration of the shepherds. - Sig. e1v, Adoration of the Magi. - Sig. e4, Presentation in the Temple. - Sig. e6v, Flight into Egypt. - Sig. f2, Dormition of the Virgin Mary. - Sig. g1, David and Bathsheba at the bath. - Sig. h1, Lazarus in the house of the rich man. - Sig. i8v, Adoration of the Holy Trinity. - Sig. k1, Christ blessing. - Sig. k1, Christ of pity supported by an angel. - Sig. k1v, Pentecost. - Sig. k1v, Veil of Veronica. - Sig. k2, Pietà. - Sig. k5, Crucifixion. - Sig. k5v, Saint Michael and the dragon. - Sig. k6, Saint John the Baptist. - Sig. k6, Saint John the Evangelist. - Sig. k6v, Saints Peter and Paul. - Sig. k7, Saint James on pilgrimage. - Sig. k7v, Saint Etienne. - Sig. k7v, Saint Laurent and his grill. - Sig. k8, Saint Christophe and the Infant Jesus. - Sig. k8v, Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. - Sig. l1, Saint Nicolas and the miracle of the children. - Sig. l1, Saint Claude. - Sig. l1v, Saint Anthony. - Sig. l2, Saint Anne teaching the Virgin to read. - Sig. l2, Saint Mary Magdalene. - Sig. l2v, Saint Catherine. - Sig. l2v, Saint Margaret. - Sig. l3, Saint Barbara. - Sig. l3v, Saint Apolline. - Sig. l5, Christ of pity supported by an angel. - Sig. l6v, Christ blessing holding a cruciform orb. - Sig. l7v, Pietà. - Sig. m2v, Pietà. - Sig. A1, Christ holding a cruciform orb.
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