Hore intemerate virgi[ni]s marie secu[n]du[m] usum Romanu[m] : totaliter ad longu[m] sine req[ue]re: cu[m] plurib[us] orationibus in gallico et latino.

Accession number: 
PML 126016
Published: 
[Paris] : Par Tielman Keruer libraire demourant a Paris sur le pont saint Michel a lenseigne de la licorne, le .xxviii. iour d'octobre. Lan Mil. CCCC.iiii.xx [et] xviii [28 October 1498].
Description: 
[92] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Clark Stillman, 1995. NNPM
Notes: 

Title from title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon (leaf m4v): Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme furent acheuees le .xxviii. iour doctobre. Lan Mil. CCCC.iiii.xx [et] xviii. Par Tielma[n] Keruer, Libraire demourant a Paris sur le po[n]t saint Michel a lenseigne de la licorne.
Printed in Georg Wolf and Thielman Kerver's types 11:110G, 12:83G, 16:52G, and 18:83G.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m⁴: 92 leaves.
Almanach for 1497-1520 (leaf a1v).
Woodcuts.
All known copies printed on vellum, so there is no real imposition format.
Morgan copy printed on vellum. NNPM
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm NNPM

Binding: 
16th-century French calf, with gold-tooled center and corner pieces around semé of fleur-de-lis, over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges. NNPM
Variant Title: 

Horae: ad usum Romanum (Rome) [French and Latin]

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary hand coloring and illumination of all woodcuts. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript prayers to "De sainct Christofle" (front endleaf 2 verso) and Saints Faro, Anne, Barbara, Agatha, Anthony of Padua, Marcoule, and Cosmos and Damian (rear endleaves 1-3). NNPM

Provenance: 
Unidentified armorial (maybe later?): azure, fess gules with sable lion passant, with motto: "ie marcy dieu" (leaf a1r); four unidentified early provenance inscriptions in French, partially abraded, several include womens' names: 1) ...femme de honorable homme et sa[??]e Maistre Thibault..., 2) ...Jehanne le Sueur vefue de feu mestre Phrouil(?)..., 3) ...Magdalene Vronast, femme de maistre Thibault..., and 4)...Catherine O[?]bethisii(?) femme de m.e m[???] Robet L[???]..., dated December Lan mil [???] (front endleaf 2 recto); E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995), shelfmark: SP5 (rear pastedown), bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995. NNPM
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Department: 
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