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HORAE, use of Rome (Latin and French). Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre 23 January 1496/7.
HORAE, use of Rome (Latin and French). Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre 23 January 1496/7. Chancery 4 o (178 x 112 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation : a-l 8 . 88 leaves. Type: 130G (heading), 81B (text) and 65G (text on almanac). Capital spaces. Pigouchet's woodcut device (Renouard 919), woodcut of Anatomical man, woodcut of the Holy Grail in the form of Christ's wound, full-page metalcuts (Fairfax Murray set 2) and smaller cuts, metalcut historiated and ornamental borders on every page, a few with criblé grounds, including Pigouchet's Dance of Death series (Claudin II, 53-53). Initial spaces and spaces for initials within the line. Initials, paragraph marks and line fillers illuminated in gold on alternating red and blue grounds, red-ruled. (Some wear and darkening.) Contemporary French blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, later morocco spine label (head of spine chipped). Provenance : Damoiselle Anthoneete de Longuy (1518 ownership inscription on verso of title, her? annotations in lower margins of 7 leaves); Marquis D'Adda (bookplate); Charles Fairfax Murray (his paper label with catalogue number on pastedown); Hannah D. Rabinowitz (bookplate); acquired from Scribner's, 1969. In the long series of Pigouchet-Vostre Books of Hours, this edition is apparently the third (following those of 22 May 1496 and 20 August 1496) to be illustrated with Pigouchet's second series of large metalcuts (Fairfax-Murray set 2), larger in size and more finely executed than the rather crude series of cuts used before 1496 (see Fairfax Murray French , 253 and p. 289). The cuts of Christ's wound, the Trinity and mass of St. Gregory do not appear, while the cut of the bleeding man, with black criblé ground and the representations of the four temperaments as cornerpieces, is uniform in size with the rest. The small cuts are new and number only ten, the representation of the saints in the suffragia appearing in the borders. The last-named are mostly in the August edition, but a number of pieces with children, angels and fantastic personages, on black criblé ground, are new. Like other printed Parisian Books of Hours of the 1490s, the signature line on the first leaf of each quire includes an initial indicating the use to which the sheets belong (e.g., "R" for Rome), necessitated by the accelerated rate of production in the printing shops specializing in Books of Hours. The almanac was apparently kept standing in type for use in several Pigouchet editions of 1496 and 1497 (cf. BMC VIII, 117, IA. 40323). Goff Supplement H-380a (this copy); Fairfax Murray French 253 (this copy); Lacombe 39.