Hore ad usum trecensem.

Accession number: 
PML 126014
Published: 
A Paris : [Jean Maurand,] pour Joffroy de marnef, .xiii. iour daoust. Lan mil. quatre cens quatre vingtz et xiii [13 August 1493].
Description: 
[100] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts, metalcuts) ; 18 cm. (4to)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes: 

Title from leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon: Ces presentes heures a lusaige de troyes one este achevees le .xiii. iour daoust. Lan mil. quatre cens quatre vingtz et xiii. pour Joffroy de marnef libraire demourant a Paris en la gra[n]t rue saint Jaques a lenseigne du pellican.
Printed in Maurand's types 2:100G and 6:63G. De Marnef device on leaf a1r.
Signatures: a-i⁸ aa⁴ k-m⁸: 100 leaves.
Almanac for years 1489-1508, leaf a1v.
Woodcuts and metalcuts. Many of the cuts are signed (letters or roman numerals) for textual organization.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.5 x 12 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century gilt-stamped purple calf, with red and green onlays, over paper boards (18.5 x 13 cm.), sewn on 5 suppots. Purple gilt-stamped calf pastedowns and endleaves (matching covers), with plain vellum endleaves ruled in red; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Title from ISTC: Horae: ad usum Trecensem

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, gilt and white initials on red and blue ground, line fillers, illustrations colored by hand. Annotations: No notations in text. Modern note that quire aa⁴ bound after leaf f8, but this is now incorrect -- probably corrected in rebinding.

Provenance: 
Alexander James Beresford Hope (1820-1887), signature (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, [Sotheby's, 23 March 1882, 8 June 1888 or 27 July 1892 -- probably 1882 sale,] for £23.10; unidentified bookseller's notations and price codes (front endleaf 2 recto and rear endleaf 2 recto); Heritage Bookshop, cat. 144 (1982), no. 244, collation statement, Jan. 1982 (rear endleaf 2 recto); E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995), shelf mark: SP3 (rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Books of hours
Vellum printings (Printing)
Calf bindings (Binding)
Onlays (Binding)
Doublures (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books