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mei/00560437 Inc.5.D.1.43[4213] [00560437]

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ISTC No.ih00392450
TitleHorae: ad usum Romanum (Rome) [French and Latin]
Imprint[Paris : Etienne Jehannot], for Antoine Vérard, [about 1497-98, before 25 Oct. 1499]
Format8°
Languagefrm
full ISTC record
SubjectLiturgy
Keywordsreligion; literature-devotional; education
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id00560437
Holding InstitutionCambridge, University Library (GB)
CollectionInc.2-7
ShelfmarkInc.5.D.1.43[4213]
NoteTitle from caption on leaf a8 verso.
Publisher's name from note printed in Middle French on leaf A1 recto, which reads in full: A la louenge de dieu de sa tressaincte [sic] et glorieuse mere / & a ledification de tous bo[n]s catholiques furent commencees ces presen=tes heures par le commandement du roy notre sire pour Anthoine Verard libraire de=mourant sur le pont nostredame a lymage saint Jehan leuangeliste ou au palais au premiier [sic] pilier deuant ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs [sic] les presidens a paris.
Woodcut device of Anthoine Vérard on leaf n8 verso.
Dated ca. 1498 by Oates, before 25 October 1499 from Vérard's address by GW, and before 13 October 1499 by Mendes.
A variant setting in the last line of caption in the lower border of leaf A1 recto signalled by GW 13295 from Cambridge University Library copy.
20 large woodcuts (of which two repeated), 37 small woodcuts (of which two repeated), multiple-piece woodcut ornamental and historiated border to each page.
Signatures: A⁸ a-n⁸ [per]⁸. Only first and third leaves of each gathering signed ["A.i" and "A.ii" etc.]
[Oraisons], in Middle French, incipit "Jesus soit en ma teste et mon entendement", incipit "Qui tout son cueur met en dieu", A1r; [Caption providing imprints information],in Middle French, A1r; [Oraisons], in Middle French, caption "Oraison a la vierge marie de lacteur de ces presentes heures", incipit "[P]Rincesse de hault parage", A1v-A4r; "Petit almanach pour .xx. ans", i.e. 1488-1508, in Middle French, A4v; [Zodiac man], with captions in Middle French, A5r; Benedictio, in Latin, with Holy Grail woodcut, A5v; [Calendarium], in Middle French, A6r-A8v; [Sequentiae evangeliorum], in Latin, a1r-a3v; "Passio domini nostri iesu christi secundum Johannem", in Latin, a3v-a7v; [Oratio], in Latin, incipit "Deus qui manus tuas et pedes tuos", in Latin, a7v; "Oraison pour le sieures tres= deuote", in Latin, incipit "[A]Nte portam hierusalem sedebat san=ctus petrus", a8r; Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, in Latin, a8v-f4v, including the [Officium] de sancta Cruce, c1r-v, the [Officium] de Spiritu Sancto, c2r-v, the [Officium] de conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis, c3r-v, and [Mutationes in Officio Beatae Virginis Mariae], e4v-f4v; Septem psalmi poenitentiales, in Latin, f5r-g2v; Litaniae sanctorum et orationes, in Latin, g2v-g7r; Officium mortuorum, in Latin, g7v-i7v; [Suffragia], in Latin, i8r-k2r; Orationes et Contemplatio Mariae Virgins, in Latin, k2v-k5v; [Litaniae lauretanae], incipit "[M]Jssus est gabriel angelus", k5v-l1r, in Latin, preceded by caption and text in Middle French, k5v-k6r, and followed by two orations in Latin, k8v-l1r; [Suffragia sanctorum], in Latin, l1r-l7r; [Orationes], in Latin with captions in Middle French, l7r-m2r; Gregorius I, Pont. Max. [?]. Orationes sancti Gregorii, in Latin, with captions in Middle French, m2r-m3r; [Orationes], in Latin with captions in Middle French, caption "Sensuiuent cinq belles oraisons que monseign[eu]r saint iehan leuangeliste fist en lonneur de la vierge Marie ...", incipit "[M]Ediatrix omnium [et] fons viuus", incipit "[A]Uxiliatrix omnium", incipit "[R]Eparatrix debilium", incipit "[I]Lluminatrix peccatorum", incipit "[A]Lleuiatrix peccatorum", m3r-m4v; [Orationes], in Middle French and Latin, m4v-m8v; "Office de nostre dame de pitié", in Middle French, incipit "[V]Ous vrays catholiques et deuotz seruiteurs", m8v-n4r; "Comment pour dire de cueur & de bouche troys veritez nous nous mettons en e=stat de grace et hors de peche mortel", in Middle French, incipit "[SJIre iay peche ainsy et ainsy co[n]tre vostre bonte", n4r-v; [Orationes], in Middle French, caption "Sensuiuent cinq belles oraisons", incipit "[M]On dieu mon pere mon createur ie me confesse auoir este", n4v-n5v; [Arnoul Gréban]. [Lay de nostre dame], verse in Middle French, incipit "[E]N protestant de la haulte excelle[n]ce", n5v-n8r; [Verse], in Middle French, incipit "En la parfin de loeuure louer dieu / Chacun de nous doit pour auoir sa grace", 8 lines of verse, with publisher's woodcut device, n8v; Septem psalmi poenitentiales, in Middle French, incipit "[D]Omine ne in furore tuo arguas me. [et]c[etera]. Sire en ta fureur ne me argue", [per]1r-[per]7r; "Oraison tres deuote a nostre seigneur", in Middle French, incipit "[S]Jre dieu createur du ciel et de la ter=re", [per]7r-[per]8v. Contents seemengly very close to Bod-inc H-167.
GW, 13295
ISTC, ih00392450
Maria Valentina C.A. Sul Mendes, Catálogo de incunábulos [Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal], Lisboa, 1988, 631
Oates, 3149
Os incunábulos das bibliotecas portuguesas, ed. Maria Valentina C.A. Sul Mendes, Lisboa, 1995, 904, pl. p. 223
On parchment.
Variant setting for "[com]me[n]cem[en]t" instead of "[com]me[n]cem[ent]" in the last line of caption in the lower border of leaf A1 recto.
Illumination: Colouring of large and small woodcuts and of borders at opening pages; initials, paragraph marks and line-fillers in gold on brown grounds throughout; all supplied by hand, France, Paris [?], late 15th or early 16th century.
[120] leaves :
Original item identifier in source database: 5248113

Provenance

PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk-en
Provenance nameCambridge University Library [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
NoteInscribed 'P<...> [obliterated by a later hand] / Clere de Notaire à E<...> [obliterated] / 24 Mai 1811' on upper free endpaper. Inscription dated 'Juin 1821' on same leaf, France, Paris. Marked '4 / 41', 'eoo', 'A 417' and '80 H' in pencil on lower pastedown. Priced 'L 3 - 5' on upper free endpaper. Acquired throught the Wilson-Barkworth Fund on 14th May 1941, armorial bookplate 'liber emptus ex legato Arturi Bromby Wilson-Barkworth' on upper pastedown.
Binding noteGilt-tooled brown calf over pasteboards, tooling including monogram 'ELP' or 'HLP' at centre of each cover within oval wreath, bookblock gilt, France, Paris [?], late 16th or 17th century.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

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Cambridge, University Library (GB) : Inc.5.D.1.43[4213]

ISTC No.ih00392450
TitleHorae: ad usum Romanum (Rome) [French and Latin]
Imprint[Paris : Etienne Jehannot], for Antoine Vérard, [about 1497-98, before 25 Oct. 1499]
format8°
languagefrm
fullistc

copy

copyId00560437
holdingInstitutionIdCambridge, University Library (GB)
holdingInstitutionCollectionInc.2-7
shelfmarkInc.5.D.1.43[4213]
noteTitle from caption on leaf a8 verso.
Publisher's name from note printed in Middle French on leaf A1 recto, which reads in full: A la louenge de dieu de sa tressaincte [sic] et glorieuse mere / & a ledification de tous bo[n]s catholiques furent commencees ces presen=tes heures par le commandement du roy notre sire pour Anthoine Verard libraire de=mourant sur le pont nostredame a lymage saint Jehan leuangeliste ou au palais au premiier [sic] pilier deuant ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs [sic] les presidens a paris.
Woodcut device of Anthoine Vérard on leaf n8 verso.
Dated ca. 1498 by Oates, before 25 October 1499 from Vérard's address by GW, and before 13 October 1499 by Mendes.
A variant setting in the last line of caption in the lower border of leaf A1 recto signalled by GW 13295 from Cambridge University Library copy.
20 large woodcuts (of which two repeated), 37 small woodcuts (of which two repeated), multiple-piece woodcut ornamental and historiated border to each page.
Signatures: A⁸ a-n⁸ [per]⁸. Only first and third leaves of each gathering signed ["A.i" and "A.ii" etc.]
[Oraisons], in Middle French, incipit "Jesus soit en ma teste et mon entendement", incipit "Qui tout son cueur met en dieu", A1r; [Caption providing imprints information],in Middle French, A1r; [Oraisons], in Middle French, caption "Oraison a la vierge marie de lacteur de ces presentes heures", incipit "[P]Rincesse de hault parage", A1v-A4r; "Petit almanach pour .xx. ans", i.e. 1488-1508, in Middle French, A4v; [Zodiac man], with captions in Middle French, A5r; Benedictio, in Latin, with Holy Grail woodcut, A5v; [Calendarium], in Middle French, A6r-A8v; [Sequentiae evangeliorum], in Latin, a1r-a3v; "Passio domini nostri iesu christi secundum Johannem", in Latin, a3v-a7v; [Oratio], in Latin, incipit "Deus qui manus tuas et pedes tuos", in Latin, a7v; "Oraison pour le sieures tres= deuote", in Latin, incipit "[A]Nte portam hierusalem sedebat san=ctus petrus", a8r; Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, in Latin, a8v-f4v, including the [Officium] de sancta Cruce, c1r-v, the [Officium] de Spiritu Sancto, c2r-v, the [Officium] de conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis, c3r-v, and [Mutationes in Officio Beatae Virginis Mariae], e4v-f4v; Septem psalmi poenitentiales, in Latin, f5r-g2v; Litaniae sanctorum et orationes, in Latin, g2v-g7r; Officium mortuorum, in Latin, g7v-i7v; [Suffragia], in Latin, i8r-k2r; Orationes et Contemplatio Mariae Virgins, in Latin, k2v-k5v; [Litaniae lauretanae], incipit "[M]Jssus est gabriel angelus", k5v-l1r, in Latin, preceded by caption and text in Middle French, k5v-k6r, and followed by two orations in Latin, k8v-l1r; [Suffragia sanctorum], in Latin, l1r-l7r; [Orationes], in Latin with captions in Middle French, l7r-m2r; Gregorius I, Pont. Max. [?]. Orationes sancti Gregorii, in Latin, with captions in Middle French, m2r-m3r; [Orationes], in Latin with captions in Middle French, caption "Sensuiuent cinq belles oraisons que monseign[eu]r saint iehan leuangeliste fist en lonneur de la vierge Marie ...", incipit "[M]Ediatrix omnium [et] fons viuus", incipit "[A]Uxiliatrix omnium", incipit "[R]Eparatrix debilium", incipit "[I]Lluminatrix peccatorum", incipit "[A]Lleuiatrix peccatorum", m3r-m4v; [Orationes], in Middle French and Latin, m4v-m8v; "Office de nostre dame de pitié", in Middle French, incipit "[V]Ous vrays catholiques et deuotz seruiteurs", m8v-n4r; "Comment pour dire de cueur & de bouche troys veritez nous nous mettons en e=stat de grace et hors de peche mortel", in Middle French, incipit "[SJIre iay peche ainsy et ainsy co[n]tre vostre bonte", n4r-v; [Orationes], in Middle French, caption "Sensuiuent cinq belles oraisons", incipit "[M]On dieu mon pere mon createur ie me confesse auoir este", n4v-n5v; [Arnoul Gréban]. [Lay de nostre dame], verse in Middle French, incipit "[E]N protestant de la haulte excelle[n]ce", n5v-n8r; [Verse], in Middle French, incipit "En la parfin de loeuure louer dieu / Chacun de nous doit pour auoir sa grace", 8 lines of verse, with publisher's woodcut device, n8v; Septem psalmi poenitentiales, in Middle French, incipit "[D]Omine ne in furore tuo arguas me. [et]c[etera]. Sire en ta fureur ne me argue", [per]1r-[per]7r; "Oraison tres deuote a nostre seigneur", in Middle French, incipit "[S]Jre dieu createur du ciel et de la ter=re", [per]7r-[per]8v. Contents seemengly very close to Bod-inc H-167.
GW, 13295
ISTC, ih00392450
Maria Valentina C.A. Sul Mendes, Catálogo de incunábulos [Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal], Lisboa, 1988, 631
Oates, 3149
Os incunábulos das bibliotecas portuguesas, ed. Maria Valentina C.A. Sul Mendes, Lisboa, 1995, 904, pl. p. 223
On parchment.
Variant setting for "[com]me[n]cem[en]t" instead of "[com]me[n]cem[ent]" in the last line of caption in the lower border of leaf A1 recto.
Illumination: Colouring of large and small woodcuts and of borders at opening pages; initials, paragraph marks and line-fillers in gold on brown grounds throughout; all supplied by hand, France, Paris [?], late 15th or early 16th century.
[120] leaves :
Original item identifier in source database: 5248113

provenance

placenameCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
areae-uk-en
ownerCambridge University Library (, )
noteInscribed 'P<...> [obliterated by a later hand] / Clere de Notaire à E<...> [obliterated] / 24 Mai 1811' on upper free endpaper. Inscription dated 'Juin 1821' on same leaf, France, Paris. Marked '4 / 41', 'eoo', 'A 417' and '80 H' in pencil on lower pastedown. Priced 'L 3 - 5' on upper free endpaper. Acquired throught the Wilson-Barkworth Fund on 14th May 1941, armorial bookplate 'liber emptus ex legato Arturi Bromby Wilson-Barkworth' on upper pastedown.
bindingNoteGilt-tooled brown calf over pasteboards, tooling including monogram 'ELP' or 'HLP' at centre of each cover within oval wreath, bookblock gilt, France, Paris [?], late 16th or 17th century.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

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Last Edit2017-04-30 12:00:00