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HORAE, Latin and French, use of Rome - A la louenge de dieu de sa tressaincte et glorieuse mere, et a ledification de tous bons catholiques furent commencees cespresentes heures par le commandement du roy nostre sire .[Edited by Guillaume Tardif.] Paris: Antoine Vérard [c. 1488-90].
HORAE, Latin and French, use of Rome - A la louenge de dieu de sa tressaincte et glorieuse mere, et a ledification de tous bons catholiques furent commencees cespresentes heures par le commandement du roy nostre sire .[Edited by Guillaume Tardif.] Paris: Antoine Vérard [c. 1488-90]. M4 o (247 x 168mm). Collation: a 8 (preliminaries including title, prayer in French, almanac, calendar), b 8 (Gospel extracts and prayers); 2 a- 2 b 8 c-g 8 h 6 i-m 8 (Hours of the Virgin, of the Cross, of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Suffrages of the Saints, miscellaneous prayers in Latin and French, publisher's'device), p 6 (prayers in French). 116 leaves. Bâtarde type 2:99, 29 lines. Publisher's metalcut device B 2 ; 17 LARGE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS (author in prayer, anatomical man, Holy Grail, Good and Bad Angels, scenes for the canonical hours, David on horseback for the Seven Penitential Psalms, Burial for the Office of the Dead) and one repeat (SS. Joachim and Anne, Visitation below); one woodcut of intermediate size (King David and 35 small woodcuts including a few repeats (Evangelists, Passion, Saints); wide multiple-block woodcut borders on every page, both decorative and pictorial (Christ, Saints, King, worshippers, etc). (Some dampstaining and repair to outer blank margins, especially at the beginning, occasionally affecting the border edge.) BINDING: Early-16 t h -century English or Flemish paneled dark calf over beveled wooden boards, floral plaque with the incipit of psalm 102 blind-blocked four times on each cover, small armorial shield repeated in the outer panels, perhaps by Jacobus van Gavere, but the impressions too faint for attribution (Oldham p. 17, cf. Weale 372), (much restored, back cover detached). Provenance : Louvain, Society of Jesus College (1636 inscription) -- William H. Schab, New York bookseller (location in Goff Suppl.) -- Acquired from August Laube 1977. The EXTREMELY RARE first Roman-use edition of Vérard's "Grandes Heures Royales", published under the patronage of Charles VIII, containing special prayers in French composed by the King's former tutor, Guillaume Tardif (see Mary Beth Winn, "Guillaume Tardif's Hours for Charles VIII and Vérard's Grandes Heures Royales," in: Bibliothéque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LVI, 1994, pp. 347-383). The editions and issues for various uses of this grand Royal series of Books of Hours were printed on vellum for illumination and on paper to be sold plain. This early edition, with the large and small series of cuts in FINE EARLY IMPRESSIONS, has survived in four copies, on paper: British Library, Huntington Library, Vershbow; on vellum: Bibliothéque nationale de France (lacking 6 leaves). BMC VIII, 76; Goff H-368 = Suppl. H-359a; Polain 1925; CIBN H-214; Macfarlane 204 = 222; Bohatta (1924) 519; Lacombe 11.