Beschreibung:

HORAE, use of Rome (Latin and French). Heures a lusage de Romme... Avec les figures de lapocalipse et plusieurs autre hystoires. Paris: Gillet Hardouyn [c. 1510]. 4to in 8s, 222 x 141 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.), CATHEDRAL BINDING of brown morocco, covers with blind-stamped gothic window design framed in triple gilt-rule within blind roll-tooled border, smooth spine similarly blind-stamped with tiny gilt star and circle tools, board edges and turn-ins gilt, pale blue moiré silk linings, g.e., bound c. 1825-30 (probably from the atelier of Joseph Thouvenin), one very small chipped spot to upper cover, head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, backstrip a bit faded, two marginal perforations to E8, one just touching metalcut borders on recto and verso, small stain to d7 verso, occasional faint show-through of coloring . PRINTED ON VELLUM, 92 leaves, gothic type, Hardouyn's centaur device (Renouard 429) on title within architectural title-border, almanach for 1510-1530 on A2r, 21 large metalcuts, including one repeat, consisting of 10 octavo-sized and 2 quarto-sized cuts from an edition of c. 1507, and 9 larger cuts previously used in an edition of 1509, 26 small metalcuts of saints, Evangelists, etc., in the text, most of the octavo-sized cuts within architectural borders, text pages within a variety of historiated and ornamental borders composed of multiple metalcut strips and blocks, large armorial device on verso of last leaf, attributed to Hardouyn by Silvestre and Renouard, but possibly a version of the arms of Portugal (cf. Fairfax Murray French , 273). TITLE DEVICE, METALCUT ILLUSTRATIONS AND ARCHITECTURAL BORDERS FULLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, liquid gold initials, paragraph marks and line-fillers painted on alternate brown and blue grounds; ruled in red. Bohatta, 913; Brunet V, 1634, no. 234; Harvard/Mortimer French 297. The illumination of this copy, presumably carried out in Hardouyn's atelier, corresponds in scope and color scheme to the Harvard copy, but the larger cuts appear to be of superior execution. Davies notes a similar discrepancy of quality in two illuminated Hardouyn books of hours in the Fairfax Murray collection (Fairfax Murray French 271 and 272). RARE EDITION. Provenance : Nineteenth-century note on the edition in French on front flyleaf, initialed (illegible) -- L. van Gobbelschroy, bookplate. -- Lucien Gougy (sale, Paris, part 4, 22 October 1935, lot --).