farfel_n06_085_443b

443 B
Andrew Stewart
helpringham, England
March '96
$200

Horae [1511]. 8^0 Use of Rome....
Paris: Antoine Virard.
Ref: Macfarlane #251
Copy: BM. (C41 d2, on vellum) leaf 5, of gathering B.

Collation: 100 unnumbered leaves; sig 93^8, aa^8, c-i^8, A-B^8, C^4, a^8
28 lines to a full page.
end: miserrimo peccatori. Pater hoster. Aue masie. FINIS.
Almanack for the years, 1503-20. 16 large cuts
13.5x20.5cm.

Proctor type 11 - 20lines = 95-6mm - of this type, 4 varieties occur.
Printed on vellum. Red ruled. Rubricated in gold paint
on red + blue grounds (small initials, line fillers)
Most capitals heightened with yellow wash. 7 line colored in
miniature [inserted] - an uncolored woodcut in B.M. copy [end inserted] of "The Man of Sorrows" - a bloodstained
Christ showing the woulds on his breast + writsts +
wearing the crown of thorns, held by an angel.
- THe theme of the Man of Sorrows seems to have
appeared first in 14th C. Manuscripts in which the
dead Christ was heald by one or more angels.
-Multiple - piece full page historiated borders with captions
-Text in Latin + French. 20 lines = 95 6 mm.

The earliest woodcut Horae known was issued by Verard,
6th Feb. 1485/6.
"Christ en douleur."
Gen xii - Offering of Isaac. John 19 - The Crucifixion.

A professional calligrapher + miniature - painter, Verard
was one of the 1st to realize the commercial possibilities
of printing for the prodcution of Books of Hours. His
pioneer efforts were quickly followed by numerous
examples published by himself, Simon Vostre, Jean du