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41 - [PRINTED HOURS]. Hore beate marie virginis secundum usum Rom…
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[PRINTED HOURS]. Hore beate marie virginis secundum usum Romanum [Hours according to the usage of Rome]. Paris, Germain Hardouyn, 1531 [almanac for the years 1531-1546]. In Latin and French, printed on parchment. With 13 engravings (mid-page, including the typographical mark) heightened in colour, one small engraving (in black on a red and gold ground). Engravings from the series produced for Germain Hardouin known as the "Duodez-Serie für Germain Hardouin". In-16 (or petit-in-8), 109 ff [missing 3 ff.] [collation : A1-8, B1-8, C1-8, D2-6 (lacking D1, D8), E1-8, F1-8, G2-8 (lacking G1), H1-8, I1-8, K1-8, L1-8, M1-8, N1-8, O1-8], Roman characters, ruled in red ink, initials heightened in liquid gold on pale blue or red ground, 13 engravings with major liturgical divisions, extended by an architectural frame in liquid gold with hanging festoon clusters, text on engraved pages framed by liquid gold baguette. Bound in glazed brown calf, smooth spine, Rocaille-style gilt decoration on covers, gilt edges (upper jaw split, headpieces dull, a few wormholes at tail of spine). Size of binding: 130 x 83 mm; size of leaves: 120 x 80 mm. Lacombe, 1151: "Belin. Catalogue de livres rares, 1902, n° 387". - Moreau, IV, 1531, 191 (or 190?). On these engravings see Tenschert and Nettekoven, Horae B. M. V.: 158 Stundenbuchdrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle, Ramsen, 2003, III, p. 1026: "Duodez-Serie für Germain Hardouin". They are used in two editions in the Tenschert collection, III, nos. 129 and 130 (c. 1538), with a colour very similar to the present engravings. Colophon (sig. O8v): "Ces presentes heures a l'usaige de Romme tout au long sans rien requerir ont esté nouvellement imprimées a Paris par Germain Hardouyn Libraire juré de l'université de Paris demourant audit lieu entre les deux portes du palays a l'enseigne saincte Marguerite". Provenance: Count de Montalembert, Peer of France, heraldic ex-libris vignette pasted on the upper flyleaf. Charles-René de Montalembert (1810-1870), journalist, politician, member of the Académie française. Text Sig. A1, Title and typographical mark of G. Hardouyn. - Sig. A1v, Poem on the Holy Host. - Sig. A2-B2, Calendar. - Sig. B2v-B5, Gospel pericopes. - Sig. B5v-C7, Passion according to Saint John, followed by Prayers including Obsecro te and O intemerata. - Sig. C7v-I1, Hours of the Virgin for the use of Rome. - Sig. I1v-K3, Penitential psalms and litanies. - Sig. K3v-M4v, Office of the Dead. - Sig. M4v-N4, Suffrages to the saints and prayers. - Sig. N4v-N8v, Seven verses of Saint Gregory, followed by prayers. - Sig. N8v-O7v, Hours of the Conception of the Virgin, Mass of the Virgin, Prayers. - Sig. O7v-O8v, Table. - O8v, Colophon. Illustration Sig. A1, typographical mark of G. Hardouyn [Renouard, 440]. - Sig. A1v, Small engraving, Holy Host. - Sig. B2v, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos. - Sig. B5v, Betrayal of Judas. - Sig. C7v, Annunciation. - Sig. E6v, Crucifixion. - E7v, Pentecost. - Sig. E8v, Nativity. - Sig. F3v, Announcement to the shepherds. - Sig. F6v, Adoration of the Magi. - Sig. G4v, Flight into Egypt. - Sig. H1, Coronation of the Virgin Mary. - Sig. I1v, David and Bathsheba at the bath. - Sig. K3v, Job on his dung heap mocked by his wife.
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