Accession number
PML 568
Object title
Hore ad usum romanum.
Published
A Paris : par Jehan morand pour [E., J. &] Joffroy de marnef, le xii. iour de feburier. Lan mil CCCC .iiiixx. et xii [12 February 1492/93].
Description
[112] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts, metalcuts) ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from title-page, leaf A1r: [E., J. and G. de Marnef's device] Hore ad usum romanum.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l8r: Ces presentes heures a lusaige de rome furent achevees a Paris par Jehan morand: le xii. iour de feburier. Lan mil CCCC .iiiixx. et xii. pour Joffroy de marnef libraire demoura[n]t audit lieu en la gra[n]t saint Jaques a lenseigne du pellican.
Printed in Maurand's types 2:100G and 6:63G.
Signatures: A, Aa, B, a-l⁸: 112 leaves.
Paper format: Median octavo.
Almanac for years 1492-1508, leaf A1r.
Woodcuts and metalcuts. Many of the border cuts are signed (letters or roman numerals) for textual organization.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.8 x 12 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l8r: Ces presentes heures a lusaige de rome furent achevees a Paris par Jehan morand: le xii. iour de feburier. Lan mil CCCC .iiiixx. et xii. pour Joffroy de marnef libraire demoura[n]t audit lieu en la gra[n]t saint Jaques a lenseigne du pellican.
Printed in Maurand's types 2:100G and 6:63G.
Signatures: A, Aa, B, a-l⁸: 112 leaves.
Paper format: Median octavo.
Almanac for years 1492-1508, leaf A1r.
Woodcuts and metalcuts. Many of the border cuts are signed (letters or roman numerals) for textual organization.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.8 x 12 cm.
Binding
Contemporary blind-stamped Dutch/Belgian calf over wooden boards (18 x 13 cm.), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Vellum manuscript pastedowns, with plain vellum endleaves. 1 clasp, missing.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Horae: ad usum Romanum.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Illustrations hand-colored in pale yellow, brown, and red wash. Annotations: Contemporary Latin inscription: "[de do]mo David et nomen virginis Maria et ingressus angelus" (leaf Aa7r) and prayer: "Spes sempiterne deus que [???] creasti ex nichilo tibi me [???] die ac nocte animarum mea et coprus..." (leaf l8v).
Provenance
George Thomas Robinson (1828-1897), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Nov. 1897; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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