Horae, use of Rome

Horae, use of Rome
Nicolas Hygman for Guillaume Eustache, 1517
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. Paris: Nicolas Hygman for Guillaume Eustache, 20 September 1517.

Large vellum copy with wide margins. Many of the large cuts and borders in this edition are copied in reverse from Kerver’s material of the preceding decade, especially his larger set of cuts “distinguished by its greater freedom from convention in the treatment of designs, there being an appearance of relief or modelling in comparison with the older cuts: cross-hatching and other forms of shading are introduced” (Davies). Bohatta (1924) 1014; Brunet V 1648, no. 295 (with variants); not in Lacombe. See Davies, Murray French, 267.

Octavo (220 x 139mm). Printed on vellum in red and black. 17 large cuts, 3 medium-size cuts of Evangelists, and 16 small cuts of saints, plus two different large devices of Eustache at beginning and end, 10 text pages with decorative woodcut border, initials and space fillers painted in gold on blue or magenta grounds, text ruled in red (initial and final leaves lightly soiled, small wormholes on leaves p7-8 at end). Modern red velvet; modern cloth box. Provenance: General Theological Union, New York, N.Y. (bookplates, accession number in ink on title verso, perforated library stamp on lower margin of title and of final leaf; their sale, Christie’s New York, 1 October 1980, lot 44) – acquired there.