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(Religion) - Hor[a]e divi[n]e v[ir]ginis Marie s[e]c[un]d[u]m usum Romanu[m]. [ Paris, Gillet et Germain Hardouin, Almanac 1513-1527]. In-8° (16,4 x 10 cm) : [96] lvs printed on vellum, illuminated (upper and right margin of title page slightly trimmed, lower margin of G1 partly cut off, M1 wrongly numbered M2, small perforation in the center of D9 affecting the image). Modern binding : full red calf, gold tooled title on flat spine, gilt edges (slightly used). VERY FINE BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, for the use of Rome, printed by the Hardouins. Illuminated with a title page figuring the "homo anatomicus" on its verso, 16 FULL-PAGE and 26 SMALLER WOODCUTS in the text, and 4 historiated borders. ALL VIVIDLY COLOURED AND HEIGHTENED IN GOLD. Text (12 x 6,2 cm) : 31 lines, signed A-M by 8, ruled in light pink, gothic textura font in black, initials in liquid gold on blue or red ground. Content : title, table, almanac 1513-1527, calendar, Gospels according to John, Luke, Matthew and Marc, Passion according to John, Hours of the Virgin and colophon. Iconography : title with Hardouin's printer's mark overpainted with heraldic shield figuring a tower on a hill with a lion on top, the Anatomic man, S. John the Evangelist, the Mocking of Christ, the Annunciation (3 times), Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation at the Temple, the Flight into Egypt, the Coronation of the Virgin, King David unidentified scene, the Crucifixion and the Pentecost. All scenes presumably designed in the workshop of the illuminator and entrepreneur Jean Pichore who supplied designs in early Renaissance style for several books of hours by different printers. # Lacombe 243; # Brunet 241. Provenance : "S.D.S." (initials painted in red on the title page); Edward Davenport (modern armorial ex-libris). ¶ Livre d'heures en latin, à l'usage de Rome, sur vélin, des presses des Hardouins, avec calendrier de 1513 à 1527. Renfermant outre le titre et l'homme anatomique, 16 enluminures à pleine page et 26 dans le texte, le tout sur bois, rehaussées de couleurs vives et dorées (titre et marge inf. de G1 faiblement rognés, perforation au milieu du feuillet D9 affectant l'image au verso). Reliure mod. veau maroquiné rouge. Drouotlive.com Read more