[HOURS] (Roman usage). Hore beate marie virginis... - Lot 5 - Giquello

Lot 5
Go to lot
Estimation :
10000 - 15000 EUR
Result with fees
Result : 19 588EUR
[HOURS] (Roman usage). Hore beate marie virginis... - Lot 5 - Giquello
[HOURS] (Roman usage). Hore beate marie virginis s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum Romanu[m] sine require. Paris, Antoine Vérard, s.d. (after 1507) [almanac for the years 1503 to 1520] In Latin and French, enhanced printing on vellum With 16 large woodcuts (and metal?) and 40 small woodcuts after the models of the Master of the Very Small Hours of Anne of Brittany and Jean Pichore Format in-4, 98 ff. [of 100] not numbered [collation: sig. [que]8, aa8, b8, c8, d6 (missing sig. d7 and d8), e4, f8, g8, h8, i4, A8, [B]8 (notebook without signature)], C4.a]8 (quire without signature)], leaves preceded and followed by a paper guard and two parchment guards, typographical mark of Antoine Vérard on the title, enhanced and placed in an engraved architectural frame, printed in gothic characters, up to 32 lines per page, ruling in pale red ink, initials in liquid gold on blue or red background (1 to 3 lines high), endpapers in red and blue with liquid gold decoration, colored engravings set in engraved and enhanced architectural frames (period colors). Bound in olive green glazed calf, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt irons and cold fleurons, double frame of gilt fillets with cold decoration in the outer frame, large plate with gilt cathedral in the center of the boards, gilt edges (Binding signed Joublin). Size of leaves : 140 x 212 mm ; size of binding : 150 x 222 mm. Small hole in the first leaf, genitals of the astronomical man redacted (verso sig. [que]1) and on the forehead of Saint John the Evangelist in the wood of the eighth leaf. Minor soiling in the margins of some leaves. Some light coloring on the first leaf. Traces of an eighteenth-century reason book copied in ink on ff. 96-98 (inscriptions erased, one perceives on f. 98v the date of "1780"). Boards a little rubbed. See : Macfarlane, Antoine Vérard (1900), 251 (giving a date of 1511 (?), citing a copy on London vellum, BL, C. 41 d 2, with 100 ff.) [N.B. MacFarlane gives a different collation with : [que]8 aa8 c-i8 A-B8 C4 ã8; and a different number of lines per page, with 28 lines per page: it must therefore not be the same edition because the present edition has 32 lines per page]; Bohatta, 461 & 778; Moreau, I, 1503, no. 69 (also citing the Paris copy, BnF, Vélins-2611). Absent from Lacombe. Absent from Tenschert and Nettekoven, Horae BMV. Let us note that in the Bibliotheca Hulthemiana, no. 604, a copy of 98 ff. is described (our copy?) "These hours so remarkable and which are unknown to the supplement of Brunet have for title an escutcheon with the legend of Antoine Verard in the middle of which is a heart inscribed with the monogram AVR above which rise the three flowers of Lys supported by two angels." (Bibliotheca Hulthemiana, 604). - Another copy recorded: Madrid, Biblioteca Historica Complutense, BH FG 3797. A fine Parisian book of hours printed on vellum by Antoine Vérard (active 1485-1512), with his typographical mark on the title and illustrated with 16 large full-page engraved figures and 40 small engravings, including the anatomical man. The engravings are all enhanced in the colors of the time, reflecting the desire to get as close as possible to the aesthetics of illuminated manuscripts. The coloring is close to the works attached to the workshop of the Master of the Parisian entries. This edition has the particularity of preserving very pure borders and margins, without engravings or ornamental compositions. Moreover, it combines two types of engravings, the older ones of the incunabula after the models of the Master of the Very Small Hours of Anne of Brittany (or Master of the Apocalypse, sometimes identified as Jean d'Ypres, son of Colin of Amiens or Master of Coëtivy, active 1480-1510) commissioned for another bookseller Simon Vostre (cycle in-octavo for Vostre, circa 1495-1498, see Tenschert and Nettekoven, 2003) and those more in the Renaissance taste made after the models of Jean Pichore (cycle made for the edition of the Hours Pichore/De Laistre of 1503/1504 ; another cycle made for Gillet Hardouyn in 1505-1506, see Zöhl, 2004). Printed books of hours constituted more than a quarter of Antoine Vérard's overall production, and the present edition shows the use of engraving cycles borrowed by Vérard from other booksellers-printers such as Vostre and Hardouyn. The dating of the present Hours is difficult to evaluate: certainly his Almanach covers the dates 1503-1520 but the use of engravings after Pichore's models, some of which can be dated after 1503/1504, suggests a slightly later dating for these Hours proposed by Vérard. If one accepts moreover that some other engravings after Pichore were first used by Hardouyn in 1505-1506
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue