Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1726. Horae, use of Rome, Paris, Kerver, 1519, contemporary calf gilt for "P. Reid", printed on vellum.

Horae, use of Rome, Paris, Kerver, 1519, contemporary calf gilt for "P. Reid", printed on vellum

Estimate

22,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

[BOOK OF HOURS]. Hore deipare virginis Marie secundum usum romanum. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 5 December 1519


A CHARMING BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED ON VELLUM, with a great number of woodcut illustrations and beautiful borders on each page. Four copies on paper are recorded in public libraries (Aschaffenburg, Cambridge, New York, Vienna), and two others on vellum, the Rabaiotti copy (sold in these rooms, 27-28 June 1991, lot 512), and the Hachette copy (Christie’s, New York, 23 April 2021, lot 208).


From 1505, Thielman Kerver began to use a new series of engravings inspired by Northern masters, which are found in this copy in their entirety. For a series of Books of Hours produced between 1503 and 1570, see Bibliotheca Brookeriana, 10 December 2024, lots 1118 to 1123. Two of these lots are Kerver printings: lot 1122, printed in 1503, and lot 1119, from 1552.


The original owner, P. Reid, has not yet been identified, but Nixon has suggested that he may be a Scot who participated in the Field of Cloth of Gold events in 1520 ("French Bookbindings for Sir Richard Wingfield and Jean Grolier", Gatherings in Honor of Dorothy E. Miner, pp. 301-315).

8vo (173 x 105 mm). Roman type, 26 lines plus headline. collation: A-Q8 R4: 132 leaves. Text printed in black and red within woodcut borders, 47 large woodcuts and numerous smaller ones, rubricated throughout in red, blue and gold. (Some slight yellowing, first leaf remargined at fore-edge just affecting the woodcut border.)


binding: Contemporary Parisian calf gilt, panelled in blind, gilt fleurons at corners, the first owner's name ("P. REID") and motto ("IATENS LE TEMPS") in gilt on each cover, spine with 4 full bands and 2 half bands, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt and gauffered with the maxims "Plus Oultre", "Spes Mea Deus" and "Pour Parvenir Endurer". (Lower compartment and half of upper compartment of spine renewed, small neat repairs to corners, lacking ties.)


provenance: P. Reid, name on binding—Brayton Ives (1849-1914), co-founder of the Grolier Club, bookticket to upper pastedown, his sale, American Art, 5 March 1891, lot 473—Henry W. Poor (1844-1915), his sale, Anderson Galleries, 17 November 1908, lot 661—Walter T. Wallace (1866-1922), sale, American Art, March 22, 1920, lot 659—Major John R. Abbey (1894-1969), ex-libris, his sale, Sotheby's, 21 June 1965, lot 394. acquisition: Purchased in 2010 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: BP16 103749 (4 copies located); Bohatta 1032; USTC 183928

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