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HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme . Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre 16 September 1498.
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme . Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre 16 September 1498. 4 o (192 x 131 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation : a-l 8 A 8 (a1r title with Pigouchet device, a1v anatomical man [4 small cuts], a2r almanac in French for 1488-1508, a2v benediction beginning 'Benedictio dei patris cum angelis suis sit super me' [Grail], a3r-8v calendar with French verses, b1r-3r Gospel sequence [Martyrdom of St. John, 3 small cuts], b3v-7r Passion according to St. John [Betrayal], b7v-d2v Hours of the Virgin: Matins-Lauds [Tree of Jesse, Annunciation, Visitation], d3r-4v Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost [Crucifixion, Pentecost, one small cut], d5r-f6r Hours of the Virgin: Prime-Compline [Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Death of the Virgin, three small cuts], f6v-g7r Seven Penitential Psalms [Death of Uriah, Bathsheba], g7v-i2v Office of the Dead [Last Judgement, Dives and Lazarus], i3r-k7v Suffrages [The Church, Deposition, 25 small cuts], k8r-l4v prayer of St. Boniface, various prayers in French and Latin, including prayer of St. Boniface, Missus est Gabriel [Mass of St. Gregory, 2 small cuts], l5r-8v Office of the Immaculate Conception [one small cut], A1-8 Seven Penitential Psalms in French and seven prayers of St Gregory [one small cut]). 96 leaves. 27 lines. Type: 4:130G, 1:98B, 3:81B, 2:65G. 23 large metalcuts by the Master of the Apocalypse-Rose, 40 small metalcuts, large Pigouchet device, multiple-piece metalcut ornamental and historiated border to each page. All cuts (except the anatomical man) with borders. Initials in red and black, heightened in gold. (Some wear and darkening.) 19th-century English calf gilt, edges gilt (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : James Place (1740 ownership inscription on the anatomical man page); Charles Lemuel Nichols (bookplate); Frederick Perkins (bookplate); Dawson Turner (note on flyleaf); Amor L. Hollingsworth (his sale C.F. Libbie, Boston, 12 April 1910, lot 882); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1970. The present is an early edition combining woodcuts from sets 2 and 3 of the Pigouchet-Vostre large metalcuts, attributed to the Master of the Apocalypse-Rose (cf. Tenschert and Nettekoven, Horae , 16). Cuts from set 3, distinguished by their criblé ground, appear to have been introduced less than 3 weeks earlier, in an edition dated 22 August 1498. The ones used here are: the Holy Grail, Tree of Jesse, Adoration of the Shepherds, Death of Uriah, Last Judgement, The Church, and the Deposition. The Mass of St. Gregory cut belongs to Fairfax Murray French set 1. CR 3099; BMC VIII, 119 (IB. 40343); Bohatta 653; Brunet Heures , 44; CIBN H-242; Lacombe 64-67; Bod-Inc. H-171; Van Praet I, 122; Goff H-395.