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[HOURS according to Roman usage].
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136
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[HOURS according to Roman usage].
See original version (French)
Estimate
€1,000 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
[HOURS according to Roman usage].
[Hore intemerate beate Marie virginis; Secundum usum Romanum].
Paris, Thielman Kerver for Gillet Remacle, 8 March 1504.
In-8 in format 12. Eighteenth-century imitation sewn vellum, title and gilt roulettes stamped on the spine, edges speckled with red (a small lack with a tear on the spine, a few pale scattered freckles, some ff consolidated at the bit when it was bound).
small old lateral restorations sometimes with MS traces, on ff 8, 36-7, 42, 113, 41-3, partial tear at the head on ff 39, 87, a partially restored tear on ff19 without missing, inner spine sometimes weakened with sometimes small and discreet old consolidations at the foot, marginal brown traces on a few quires, discreet small holes on ff 1 and 115-6 and 1).
Rare post-incunabulum book of hours.
Printed on laid paper in bastard Gothic by Thielman Kerver.
Copies printed on vellum have been more easily preserved than those on laid paper.
Text entirely framed and rubricated in red and blue.
Collation: 116 ff (of 124: lacking a1-2 d7-8, f1, m1 and p7-8).
Complete with the anatomical man (f.1), 13 large figures (out of 17) engraved in black.
No copy in CCFr or WorldCat.
Each page of text in a beautiful frame very richly decorated with engraved vignettes, sieved or on a white background: biblical scenes, numerous hunting scenes, floral decorations, sometimes large patristic or divine figures, foliage, skeletons, biblical scenes, imaginary bestiary, chimeras, nudes, rich historiated or ornamental frames on each page.
Kerver's engraved figures from this period are sometimes given as having been engraved on copper after compositions by Anne de Bretagne's master (or Master of the Apocalypse rose in the Sainte-Chapelle) commissioned from 1497 onwards, or on wood by Kerver himself when he published his first book of Hours 3 years earlier. A comparison of Kerver's earlier publications shows that some of the material was at least certainly reused. Our edition also bears, at the bottom of each page, a kind of small tablet on woodcut, decorated in the Gothic style of the period.
Missing from Moreau/Renouard, Lacombe and Brunet, the latter describing only an edition dated 20 October 1505, of the same format with the same collation (Brunet, Heures Gothiques, 177).
Handwritten ex libris mark of the period, difficult to decipher, on the colophon.
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