Accession number
PML 30355
Object title
Officia quotidiana sive horas cuiuslibet diei.
Published
Ceseraugustam [i.e. Zaragoza] : Paulum Hurum, Anno a partu v[ir]ginis post millesimum quadringentesimu[m] nonagesimu[m] nonu[m]. Septimo ydus Marcii [9 March 1499].
Description
[19], I-CCI leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 15 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased in 1934.
Notes
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf E7v-8r: Officia quotidiana sive horas cuiuslibert diei: brevi [et] pulcherrimo stilo [et] ordine co[m]positas: s[ecun]d[um] usum Romane ecclesie: compluribus meritoriis: [et] devotissimis orationib[us] annexis: hic fine[m] sumpsisse cernens/ [con]lector devotissime: deo [et] suis corregna[n]tib[us] gr[ati]as age. Actoremq[ue] Paulum Hurum Co[n]stanciensem Germanicum lauda: cuius iussu [et] impensis facta sunt apud urbem Ceseraugustam [leaf E8r:] Anno a partu v[ir]ginis post millesimum quadringentesimu[m] nonagesimu[m] nonu[m]. Septimo ydus Marcii. [Printer's mark] Laus deo.
Printed in Hurus's types 2*:134G, 3:100G, 6:75/76G, and 7:84G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ d-z⁸ A-E⁸: 220 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Printed throughout in black and red.
26 large woodcuts (with 2 repeated), 2 woodcuts for the golden number and dominical letter in calendar, and 47 small woodcuts (5 repeated).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14 x 10 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: E8.
Printed in Hurus's types 2*:134G, 3:100G, 6:75/76G, and 7:84G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ d-z⁸ A-E⁸: 220 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Printed throughout in black and red.
26 large woodcuts (with 2 repeated), 2 woodcuts for the golden number and dominical letter in calendar, and 47 small woodcuts (5 repeated).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14 x 10 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: E8.
Binding
17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (15 x 10 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plaited endbands. 2 pin clasps.
Variant title
Horae: ad usum Romanum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Hand colored woodcuts (probably later, colors seem more opaque than typical for period). Annotations: 16th-century German prayer (leaf a1r). 16th-century notations in bottom margins of quires s-t, all abraded.
Provenance
Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek, Maihingen, probably from at least the 19th century (probably not Marcus Fugger of Augsburg (1529-1597), who generally signed his books and had them bound in Paris, and whose books were in the same sale); Oettingen-Wallerstein and Fugger sale, Karl & Faber (Munich), Auk. IX, 11 May 1934, lot 112, to Morgan via L'art ancien; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L'art ancien (Zurich), June 1934.
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