176 Illustrated pages on PARCHMENT - Book of Hours - Heures a l'Usaige de Rome - 1515
FULLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF HOURS - BOOK OF HOURS - 176 ILLUSTRATED PAGES ON PARCHMENT
INCUNABLE POST WITH 112 LARGE WOODBLOCK PRINTS WITH THE FIGURES OF THE VIRGIN, KINGS, DEVILS AND SAINTS
Beautiful Psalter of the Virgin according to the text of Saint Bonaventure: due to its musicality, it is also called the Psalter of the Virgin Mary; and the Rosarians are called the pious Musicians of God and of the Virgin
Mary.
Solid binding and well-etched pages: The vellum of the pages is printed with strong inks.
Title page illustrated and watercolored by a later hand. Beautiful and numerous drop caps illuminated in blue, red and gold.
A collector's copy.
Printed in small Gothic type, with the text set in large stained wood-engraved frames. The volume is decorated with 10 large full-page figures. Full-page woodcuts depicting the Annunciation, the birth of Christ, the Adoration of the Three Kings, etc.
Brigitte Moreau, n° 30.
- Three known examples, one of which is in France, École des Beaux-Arts. See Lacombe 186 (French text) and Lacombe 310 (ed. 1521) . Renouard 499 (T. Kerver) . Lombards: 5. 0; 9. 0; 11. 0.
SOLD AT AUCTION FOR 35,000 EUROS
CONTENTS
The illustration includes 22 large figures of different styles, placed either in mesh frames or in architectural frames, including that of the anatomical man (or rather skeleton) . The first of these figures represents the kidnapping of Deianira by the centaur Nessus and saved by Hercules, a subject taken from Greek mythology, and the last shows two angels holding up a crowned shield loaded with twelve castles and surmounting an armillary sphere: these two engravings, listed and reproduced by Silvestre, n°54 and 55, are the typographical trademarks of Gillet Hardouyn.
Copy on parchment, ruled and rubricated, of the remarkable Grandes Heures by Gillet Hardouyn.
Described by Lacombe as number 265, the edition is printed in Gothic script and features an almanac for 16 years, from 1515 to 1530.
Each page is framed by ornamental borders or engravings of various sizes, most of which represent characters or scenes from the Holy Scriptures; the iconographic cycle of the dance of the dead, present in this edition, unfolds in 22 more or less surprising engravings of approximately 14 lines in height placed in the margin of cards from G7 to K4, i. e. one engraving per page.
The Psalter of Mary is grafted onto the Psalter of David: in fact, the Hail Marys are the Canticles of the New Testament, as the Psalms of the Old Testament already were, as Saint Ambrose states.
It is compared to the Psalter, the 150-string musical instrument, similar to the Harp, with which the Jews set the Psalms of David to music.
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio (Bagnoregio, 1217/1221 – Lyon, 15 July 1274) was an Italian cardinal, philosopher and theologian. Called Doctor Seraphicus, he studied and taught at the Sorbonne in Paris and was a friend of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Giotto was inspired by his biography - the Legenda Maior - for the cycle of stories about the Saint in the basilica of Assisi.
Bonaventure is considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Franciscan tradition, which also thanks to him began to become a real school of thought, both from a theological and philosophical point of view.
CONDITION REPORT
176 ILLUSTRATED PAGES ON PARKING.
Back binding in full leather with fleurons on the plates and on the five boxes of the spine, titles and decorations in cold-stamped gold. Solid binding and well-etched pages: The vellum of the pages is printed with strong, well-etched inks.
Title page illustrated and watercolored by a later hand. Beautiful and numerous drop caps illuminated in blue, red and gold. pp. 176 nos. 11 notebooks signed A-L8, brown morocco, double cold frame with golden fleuron at the corners and in the centre, decorated spine, internal edge of morocco decorated in the same color as cold fillets, navy blue moiré lining and protections, golden edges (C . Nederveen Bois-le-Duc) .
A collector's copy.
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[Livre d'Heures] - Heures a lusaige de Rome tout au long sans requerir [. . .] - 1515
[au colophon] : Paris, Gillet Hardouyn, s. d. [1515]
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FULLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF HOURS - BOOK OF HOURS - 176 ILLUSTRATED PAGES ON PARCHMENT
INCUNABLE POST WITH 112 LARGE WOODBLOCK PRINTS WITH THE FIGURES OF THE VIRGIN, KINGS, DEVILS AND SAINTS
Beautiful Psalter of the Virgin according to the text of Saint Bonaventure: due to its musicality, it is also called the Psalter of the Virgin Mary; and the Rosarians are called the pious Musicians of God and of the Virgin
Mary.
Solid binding and well-etched pages: The vellum of the pages is printed with strong inks.
Title page illustrated and watercolored by a later hand. Beautiful and numerous drop caps illuminated in blue, red and gold.
A collector's copy.
Printed in small Gothic type, with the text set in large stained wood-engraved frames. The volume is decorated with 10 large full-page figures. Full-page woodcuts depicting the Annunciation, the birth of Christ, the Adoration of the Three Kings, etc.
Brigitte Moreau, n° 30.
- Three known examples, one of which is in France, École des Beaux-Arts. See Lacombe 186 (French text) and Lacombe 310 (ed. 1521) . Renouard 499 (T. Kerver) . Lombards: 5. 0; 9. 0; 11. 0.
SOLD AT AUCTION FOR 35,000 EUROS
CONTENTS
The illustration includes 22 large figures of different styles, placed either in mesh frames or in architectural frames, including that of the anatomical man (or rather skeleton) . The first of these figures represents the kidnapping of Deianira by the centaur Nessus and saved by Hercules, a subject taken from Greek mythology, and the last shows two angels holding up a crowned shield loaded with twelve castles and surmounting an armillary sphere: these two engravings, listed and reproduced by Silvestre, n°54 and 55, are the typographical trademarks of Gillet Hardouyn.
Copy on parchment, ruled and rubricated, of the remarkable Grandes Heures by Gillet Hardouyn.
Described by Lacombe as number 265, the edition is printed in Gothic script and features an almanac for 16 years, from 1515 to 1530.
Each page is framed by ornamental borders or engravings of various sizes, most of which represent characters or scenes from the Holy Scriptures; the iconographic cycle of the dance of the dead, present in this edition, unfolds in 22 more or less surprising engravings of approximately 14 lines in height placed in the margin of cards from G7 to K4, i. e. one engraving per page.
The Psalter of Mary is grafted onto the Psalter of David: in fact, the Hail Marys are the Canticles of the New Testament, as the Psalms of the Old Testament already were, as Saint Ambrose states.
It is compared to the Psalter, the 150-string musical instrument, similar to the Harp, with which the Jews set the Psalms of David to music.
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio (Bagnoregio, 1217/1221 – Lyon, 15 July 1274) was an Italian cardinal, philosopher and theologian. Called Doctor Seraphicus, he studied and taught at the Sorbonne in Paris and was a friend of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Giotto was inspired by his biography - the Legenda Maior - for the cycle of stories about the Saint in the basilica of Assisi.
Bonaventure is considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Franciscan tradition, which also thanks to him began to become a real school of thought, both from a theological and philosophical point of view.
CONDITION REPORT
176 ILLUSTRATED PAGES ON PARKING.
Back binding in full leather with fleurons on the plates and on the five boxes of the spine, titles and decorations in cold-stamped gold. Solid binding and well-etched pages: The vellum of the pages is printed with strong, well-etched inks.
Title page illustrated and watercolored by a later hand. Beautiful and numerous drop caps illuminated in blue, red and gold. pp. 176 nos. 11 notebooks signed A-L8, brown morocco, double cold frame with golden fleuron at the corners and in the centre, decorated spine, internal edge of morocco decorated in the same color as cold fillets, navy blue moiré lining and protections, golden edges (C . Nederveen Bois-le-Duc) .
A collector's copy.
FULL TITLES & AUTHORS
[Livre d'Heures] - Heures a lusaige de Rome tout au long sans requerir [. . .] - 1515
[au colophon] : Paris, Gillet Hardouyn, s. d. [1515]
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