Lot n° 529
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6000 - 8000
EUR
Hours for the use of Paris, printed on vellum. - Lot 529
Hours for the use of Paris, printed on vellum.
Simon Vostre, around 1508.
"These present hours for the use of Paris are throughout nothing require with the miracles Notre Dame, and the figures of the apocalypse and the antique and triumphs of Caesar".
104 ƒƒ. of parchment, in 4° (215 x 140 mm.)
(a-b8, c4, d-i8, k6, a'8, e'8, i8 o6).
Almanac 1508-1528.
Binding of the XVIIth century brown calf, spine decorated with gilt designs. Binding rubbed, corners stripped, jaws fragile.
Text:
ƒ. a1v Almanac 1508-1528.
ƒ. a2-a8 Calendar.
ƒƒ. b1-b2v Pericopes of the four gospels.
ƒƒ. b3-c8 Passion, Obsecro te, O intemerata, Stabat mater, Missus est
Gabriel angelus, Te Deprecor.
ƒƒ. d1-g7 Hours of the Virgin to the use of Paris with the hours of the Cross and the Holy Spirit interspersed from Lauds.
ƒƒ. g8-h7 Psalms of penance.
ƒƒ. h8-k6 Vigils of the dead.
ƒƒ. a'-e'4 Suffrages and prayers.
ƒƒ. e'4v-e'7 Office of the Conception of Our Lady.
ƒƒ. e'7v-e'8 Of the Holy Sepulchre.
ƒƒ. e'8-e'8v There follows the table of these present hours.
ƒƒ. i'1-i4 Office of Our Lady of Mercy.
ƒƒ. i'4-o6v Prayers: Sweet Lady, Holy True Cross, O reyne qui fuste mise et assise, Glorious holy Lady, Toy royne de hault pararaige,
Glorious Virgin Mary, My God my creator, My blessed God, I
My God my creator, My blessed God, I believe in heart, Sire God eternal.
Engravings :
24 large copper engravings :
- 14 engravings in full page.
- 10 in two thirds of page.
Numerous small engravings.
Anonymous engraving.
- a1 Mark of Simon Vostre.
Engravings according to the drawings of the Master of the Apocalypse of the Sainte Chapelle.
Six engravings (2/3 of a page) by the Master of the Apocalypse of the Holy Chapel
Chapel : Jean Dipres ? (1495-1498).
- a2 The anatomical man.
- c8v Tree of Jesse.
- f2 Adoration of the shepherds.
- a'1 The triumphant Church and the militant Church.
- a'3 The Holy Wound.
- e'7v Entombment.
All the small engravings.
Borders: the calendar, the story of Joseph and his brothers, the sibyls, gathering, deer hunting, the story of David, the Dance of Death, the
7 sacraments.
Ines Nettekoven (Der Meister des Apokalipsenrose der Sainte-Chapelle und die Pariser Buchkunst um 1500, Turnhout, 2004, Abb. 158-176) names the artist after the stained glass windows of the Rose of the Holy Chapel.
Vostre. N. Reynaud (Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520,
Cat. Expo. BNF Oct. 1993 - Jan. 1994, pp. 265-270) prefers the name
Master of the Very Small Hours of Anne of Brittany according to the BNF manuscript (Paris, NAL 3120). The author proposes to identify him with
one of the sons of Colin d'Amiens or Nicolas Dipres : Jean Dipres ?
Engravings according to the drawings of Jean Pichore 1504-1506.
- 17 engravings (of which 14 full page and 3 at the 2/3 of page : G8, H8 and E'4v°)
- a8v Saint John and the poisoned cup.
- b3 The betrayal of Judas.
- d1 Annunciation.
- d8v Visitation.
- e4v Crucifixion (after Martin Schoengauer).
- e6v Nativity (after Martin Schoengauer: C. Zöhl, Abb. 244).
- f 1v Announcement to the shepherds.
- f4v Adoration of the Magi (after Martin Schoengauer: C. Zöhl,
Abb. 243).
- f7 Presentation in the Temple (after Jean Poyet).
- g1v Flight to Egypt.
- g4v Coronation of the Virgin Mary.
- g7v David playing the Harp.
- g8 David giving Uriah the letter that condemns him (after John Poyet).
- h7v Resurrection of Lazarus (after John Poyet).
- h8 Job visited by his friends (after Jean Poyet).
- e'4v Saint Anne Trinitarian.
Antique borders, Apocalypse (d1v to e7), Triumphs of Caesar
(a'3v-e'1). These two last series come from the series in 8° of
Jean Pichore.
Most of the large engravings come from the edition of Jean
Pichore and Rémy de Laistre in 4° of April 5, 1504 (Tenschert vol. 2,
n° 92) with the exception of David and Uriah (l.8) and Job visited by his friends
(h.8), Saint Anne Trinitarian (e'4v) which are in the Hours
in 8° of September 24, 1504 of the same (C. Zöhl, Jean Pichore :
Buchmaller, Graphiker und Verleger in Paris um 1500, Turnhout, 2004,
Abb. 99-130, pp. 162-176). Vostre used them around 1505-1508 (Zöhl, pp.
22-25).
Jean Pichore is documented from 1502 to 1518, in 1502 in the service of
Cardinal d'Amboise and then in 1518 for the Chants royaux du Puy
Notre Dame d'Amiens offered by the aldermen of Amiens to Louise de
of Savoy. It is nourished by the compositions of the illuminator of Touraine Jean
Poyet in the Briçonnet Hours (Haarlem, Teylers Museum ms. 78)
and the Germanic engravers such as
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