HORAE, use of Rome. Paris: Simon Vostre ca.1507 [almanach for 1507-1527]. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 8° (180 x 114mm), 107 leaves, collation: A-D 8 E 7 F-N 8 + 4 , each text page within a historiated metalcut border, including a fine Dance of Death cycle, initials illuminated throughout, Vostre's large printer's device of two leopards on A1, 27 SMALL AND 16 LARGE FINELY COLOURED WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS, including the Anatomical Man. (Some marginal minor staining of first 6 and final leaves.) Late 16th-century Roman red morocco gilt, a continuous ribbon within double-fillets painted black forming shaped compartments on both covers, containing volutes, hatched and solid flowers and leaves and small gold dots, also figures of putti and winged furies, in centre panel symbols of a Pope, the arms erased, spine with raised bands, a floral tool in each of the five compartments, a small blind-tooled stamp incorporating the monogram GM added repeatedly on the sides, (binding slightly rubbed in a few places; wear in upper joint and head and foot of spine repaired). Provenance : Probably bound for one of three Popes, who ruled only briefly and may never have received it from the binder, i.e. Urban VII (15 Sept.-16 Oct. 1590), Gregory XIV (1590-1591) or Innocent IX (29 Oct.-30 Dec. 1591); slightly later ownership inscription in Greek of Auguste Dubois on paste-down. Not in Lacombe or Brunet; Bohatta 850 locates only one copy in the Bibliothèque Hemricourt.
HORAE, use of Rome. Paris: Simon Vostre ca.1507 [almanach for 1507-1527]. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 8° (180 x 114mm), 107 leaves, collation: A-D 8 E 7 F-N 8 + 4 , each text page within a historiated metalcut border, including a fine Dance of Death cycle, initials illuminated throughout, Vostre's large printer's device of two leopards on A1, 27 SMALL AND 16 LARGE FINELY COLOURED WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS, including the Anatomical Man. (Some marginal minor staining of first 6 and final leaves.) Late 16th-century Roman red morocco gilt, a continuous ribbon within double-fillets painted black forming shaped compartments on both covers, containing volutes, hatched and solid flowers and leaves and small gold dots, also figures of putti and winged furies, in centre panel symbols of a Pope, the arms erased, spine with raised bands, a floral tool in each of the five compartments, a small blind-tooled stamp incorporating the monogram GM added repeatedly on the sides, (binding slightly rubbed in a few places; wear in upper joint and head and foot of spine repaired). Provenance : Probably bound for one of three Popes, who ruled only briefly and may never have received it from the binder, i.e. Urban VII (15 Sept.-16 Oct. 1590), Gregory XIV (1590-1591) or Innocent IX (29 Oct.-30 Dec. 1591); slightly later ownership inscription in Greek of Auguste Dubois on paste-down. Not in Lacombe or Brunet; Bohatta 850 locates only one copy in the Bibliothèque Hemricourt.
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