Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Hōrai tēs aeiparthenou Marias kat'ethos tēs rōmaïkēs aulēs. Hepta psalmoi tēs metanoias = Horae beatiss[imae] uirginis secu[n]dum consuetudinem Romanae curiae. Septem psalmi poenitentiales cu[m] laetaniis & orationibus.

Accession number
PML 18876.2
Object title

Hōrai tēs aeiparthenou Marias kat'ethos tēs rōmaïkēs aulēs. Hepta psalmoi tēs metanoias = Horae beatiss[imae] uirginis secu[n]dum consuetudinem Romanae curiae. Septem psalmi poenitentiales cu[m] laetaniis & orationibus.

Published

[Venice] : Enetiēsin etypōthē par' Aldō, ouk aneu mentoi pronomiou, chiliostō tetrakosiostō ennenēkostō hebdomō apo tēs theogonias etei, mēnos Poseideōnos pemptē histamenou, epi archontos Augustinou Varvadikou tēn vasilida tōn poleōn taute

Description

[112] leaves : 1 woodcut ; 11 cm (16mo)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf [alpha]1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [xi]8r: Enetiēsin etypōthē par'aldō; ouk aneu mentoi pronomiou; Chiliostō tetrakosiostō ennenēkostō hevdomō apo tēs Theogonias etei; mēnos poseideōnos pemptē histamenou; epi archontos Augustinou Varvadikou tēn vasilida tōn poleōn tautēn eutychōs ēniochountos.
Printed in Manuzio's type 2:114R and 7:114Gk.
Signatures: [alpha]-[xi]⁸: 112 leaves, leaf [xi]8 blank ([zeta]4 signed [epsilon]4).
Paper format: Median half-sheet 16mo.
Title-page, headings, rubrics, woodcut vinework and floral headpieces and initials, and letterpress capitals printed in red.
Woodcut of the Annunciation on leaf [alpha]1v.
Quire [kappa] is known in 2 settings, designated 'A' and 'B' by Bühler. Cf. C.F. Bühler, "Notes on two incunabula printed by Aldus Manutius," PBSA 36 (1942): 18-26.
Some copies have a prefixed 16-leaf section, signed a-b⁸, containing the "Brevissima introductio ad litteras Graecas" of Aldo Manuzio. Cf. Bühler.
Printed in a single column, 13 lines per page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 10.4 x 7.5 cm, temoin leaf [lambda]4: 10.7 x 7.6 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [alpha]1 (half-title) and [xi]8 (blank).
Binding
18th/19th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (11 x 8 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Horae beatiss[imae] uirginis secu[n]dum consuetudinem Romanae curiae. Septem psalmi poenitentiales cu[m] laetaniis & orationibus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Lyon, Carmelites, inscription: "Carmeli Lugduni S.30," 17th/18th century (leaf [alpha]2r); H.C. Hoskier (1864-1938); his sale, Sotheby's, 30 June 1908, lot 324; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Hoskier, May 1909.
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Century
Department