Beschreibung:

HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin. Hore intemerate Dei genitricis Virginis Marie secumdum [sic] vsum Romane ecclesie. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 23 June, 1507.
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin. Hore intemerate Dei genitricis Virginis Marie secumdum [sic] vsum Romane ecclesie. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 23 June, 1507. Extremely rare, highly decorated Book of Hours printed on vellum; not recorded in any of the standard bibliographies. Printed on vellum, 8vo (173 x 110mm). 152 leaves. Black letter, 25 lines, printed in red and black, 18 large cuts (one repeat), historiated borders, title with Kerver device print on final verso, initials in liquid gold on red or blue ground (small repairs to i8, o1 and r6 with loss of a few words or images and with some of those affected images redrawn in pencil, occasional light soiling). Contemporary French panelled calf over thin wooden boards, tooled in blind with arabesque role, at centre a YHS monogram in gilt, gilt edges (sometime expertly rebacked preserving original backstrip, extremities lightly rubbed). Collating a-t8, this is an extremely rare edition of Kerver’s output of Books of Hours. While his publications in January and September of 1507 are well recorded, this June edition is not recorded by Brunet, Lacombe or Tenschert. ABPC fails to record a single copy as selling at auction, while recent entries on RBH mention only single leaves selling at auction from this work. No copies can be traced in institutions; the BnF record produced by Worldcat is actually just a cross-reference to Bohatta’s entries 835, 843 and II, 1123 in his Bibliographie der Livres d’heures , Vienna: 1924