[HOURS]. Hours printed for the use of Rome - Lot 26

[HOURS]. Hours printed for the use of Rome Hore dive virginis Marie secundum verum usum Romanum cul aliis folio sequenti notatis : una cum figuris apocalypsis post figuras bible recenter insertis In Latin and French, printed in red and black on parchment, metal engravings. France, Paris, Thielman Kerver, April 5, 1511 [almanac for the years 1506-1530]. In-8°, 108 ff. preceded by 3 paper endpapers and followed by 2 paper endpapers, complete [collation: A-N8, O4], with 19 large engravings and numerous small engravings, engraved and historiated borders, typographical mark of Thielman Kerver on title; hand-painted initials in red and blue, with white highlights; handwritten notes added to endpapers, in Latin and Spanish (hand of second half of 16th or early 17th century). Bound in brown calf with gilt decoration, spine with 5 nerves, remnants of gilt decoration (much faded), boards with gilt decoration composed of small irons and scrolls (also partly faded), Spanish binding of the late 16th or early 17th century, gilt edges, brass clasps (binding rubbed and gilt partly faded; corners dulled). A few stains on the first two quires, a few wormholes on the last few leaves, not serious. Size of leaves: 170 x 105 mm; size of binding: 180 x 110 mm. Moreau, II, 1511, 119. - Bohatta, Bibliographie der Livres d'heures..., Vienna, 1924, II, 127; Bohatta, Katalog der liturgischen Drucke des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts..., Vienna 1909-1910, 348. - Claerr, T., Imprimerie et réussite sociale à Paris à la fin du Moyen Age. Thielman Kerver, imprimeur-libraire de 1497 à 1522. Catalog of editions, vol. II, no. 177. Colophon : Finit officium beate marie virginis secundum usum Romanum cum missa eiudem : & septem psalmis penitentialibus : cum officio mortuorum / sancte crucis & sancti spiritus : una cum horis conceptionis eiusdem gloriose virginis.....Parisius impressum anno domini millesimo quingentesimo undecimo die vero quinta mensis aprilis. Opera Thielmanni Kerver commorantis in vico sancti Iacobi ad intersignium craticule. Illustrated A good copy, rubricated in blue, red and gold. The woodcuts in this edition combine compositions by the Master of the Rose of the Apocalypse (Master of the Très petites Heures d'Anne de Bretagne: "Metallschnitt MdA für Thielman Kerver") with those from the in-octavo series produced by Jean Pichore's workshop for Kerver ("Oktavserie der Pichore-Werkstatt für Kerver"). Sig. a1 v, Anatomical man. Sig. b1, Martyrdom of John the Evangelist, boiling oil torture. Sig. b3v, Jesus' arrest and Judas' kiss. Sig. b8v, Tree of Jesse. Sig. c1, Annunciation. Sig. c8v, Visitation. Sig. d5v, Nativity. Sig. d7v, Announcement to the shepherds. Sig. e1v, Adoration of the Magi. Sig. e3v, Presentation in the temple. Sig. e5v, Flight into Egypt. Sig. e8v, Coronation of the Virgin Mary. Sig. g4, Calling of David, kneeling and depicted as a shepherd (Anointing of David by Samuel). Sig. h4v, Resurrection of Lazarus. Sig. k4v, Crucifixion. Sig. k6v, Pentecost. Sig. k8v, Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. Sig. l6v, Trinity and tetramorph. Sig. n1v, Christ surrounded by the instruments of the Passion.