Research Catalog

Title

Officium Beate Marie [Vir]ginis ad vsum Saru[m] : cu[m] plurib[us] deuotis orationibus [et] co[n]te[m]platio[n]ibus imp[re]ssu[m] caracteribus, figuris, ac mortis accide[n]tia nouiter additis.

Author

Catholic Church.

Publication

[Paris] : Expensis honesti viri Symonis Vostre co[m]morantis Parisius in vico nouo e regione Diue Virginis Marie: in intersignio Sancti Iohannis euangeliste, [1512]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vostre, Simon, active 1488-1520
• Pigouchet, Philippe, active 15th century-16th century
• Master of the Unicorn Hunt, active approximately 1480-1510
• Pichore, Jean, active 1502-1520
• Container of (work): Catholic Church. Little office of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• Catholic Church. Diocese of Salisbury (England)

Description

[256] pages : illustrations; 18 cm (8vo)

Summary

Includes, besides the Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis (Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary), most traditional contents of Books of hours, such as the calendar, extracts from the Gospels, hours of the Cross, fifteen Psalms of Degrees, seven Penitential Psalms, the Office for the Dead, a litany of saints, prayers to saints, the Rosary, and various other prayers and liturgical texts. See "The contents of thys booke" (leaves q7-8. ).

Uniform Title

Book of hours (Diocese of Salisbury, England)

Alternative Title

• Book of hours (Diocese of Salisbury, England)
• Officium Beate Marie Virginis ad usum Sarum
• Officium Beate Marie Vginis ad vsum Saru
• Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Sarum
• Mortis accidentia.

Subject

• Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions > Early works to 1800. > Latin
• Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions > Early works to 1800. > English
• Bible. > Illustrations > Early works to 1800
• Books of hours > France > Texts > Early works to 1800
• Books of hours > France > Illustrations > Early works to 1800
• Devotional calendars > Early works to 1800
• Dance of death in art > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Metal cuts – France – 16th century.
• Woodcuts – France – 16th century.
• Bookbinding (Binding) – France – 17th century.
• Vellum printings (Printing) – France – 16th century.

Note

• With almanac for 1512-1530 on title page verso.
• Publisher information from title page. Probable publication date from almanac and sources cited below.
• "From a very early time the superior skill of foreign printers had procured them many commissions to print service-books for the English market, alike on account of their greater accuracy, their experience in printing in red and black, and the more attractive illustrations which they had at their disposal. Not long after 1470 a Sarum Breviary was printed abroad, possibly at Cologne ... When the Paris printers and publishers had won the admiration of all Europe by their pretty editions of the Hours of the Blessed Virgin, they competed with each other for the English market"--Fine books, by Alfred W. Pollard. 1912, pages 228-229.
• Signatures: [a]⁸ b-q⁸. $1 signed. Sa, for Sarum, on first leaf of gatherings b-q.
• Printed in red and black. Gothic type; 26 lines.
• Spencer Coll. copy is printed on vellum.
• Illustrations: 15 large metal cuts, most with architectural borders with captions in the subjacent border, on leaves a2r (anatomical man as skeleton), a8v (Holy Trinity and the Church), b7v (Oil martyrdom of St. John; without border), c2v (Arrest of Jesus), c7r (Annunciation), d3R (Tiburtine sibyl and Augustus), e2r (Crucifixion; without border), e3v (Nativity), e6r (Annunciation to the shepherds), e8r (Adoration of the Magi), f2r (Circumcision), f4r (Massacre of the innocents), f6r (Death of the Virgin), k4r (David and Uriah), l7v (Job). Most ascribed to the workshop of Jean Pichore; some are partly or wholly copied from German models (Martyrdom of St. John, after Dürer; Arrest of Jesus, after Schongauer). See Horae B.M.V. / herausgegeben von Heribert Tenschert und Ina Nettekoven, 2003, pages 341-342. For a table of the large illustrations in Books of hours printed by Philippe Pigouchet or by him for Simon Vostre, see Catalogue of a collection of early French books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray, page 1077. The present work includes 6 cuts reproduced in Fairfax Murray from other editions: Tiburtine sibyl and Augustus, Nativity, David and Uriah, from set 3; Job and Martyrdom of St. John, from set 4a; Adoration of the Magi, from Set 5. -- 10 small cuts in the text (Evangelists, scenes from the Passion, the Sacred Heart), on leaves b8v, c1r, c2r, e5v, f1v, f3v, f5v, q2r, q4r, q6r; some also used in the borders.
• Vostre's device, incorporating his name, on title page; a variant used by Vostre in his later editions, in which the border below the name has been excised. See Silvestre, L.-C. Marques typographiques, no. 32; Renouard, P. Marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles, 1107.
• Historiated and decorative metal cut and woodcut borders throughout, some criblé, many accompanied by captions in Latin or French, from various series originally employed in Books of hours printed by Philippe Pigouchet or by him for Vostre. Subjects include zodiac signs and seasonal activities and amusements (in the calendar); history of Joseph; the Apocalypse (48 subjects); saints; life of the Virgin; life of Jesus; the history of Job; the Sacraments; virtues; the Prodigal Son (8 subjects); Susannah (12 subjects); 15 signs of the Last Judgement (17 subjects); the 12 Sibyls; a Dance of Death (66 subjects) and a related series of Accidents of man (26 subjects; mentioned on title page as "Mortis accide[n]tia"); the triumphs of Caesar (24 subjects); miracles of the Virgin (13 subjects). Some are ascribed to the Master of the Apocalypse Rose of Sainte Chapelle (also known as the Master of the Unicorn Hunt) or to the workshop of Jean Pichore by Tenschert and Nettekoven. See Horae B.M.V., cited above, pages 126-128, 343-344. For a table of the Pigouchet/Vostre border series, see Catalogue of a collection of early French books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray, page 1078; for reproductions of some of those employed here, including the calendar series, the prodigal son, the Sacraments, the signs of the Last Judgement and the Dance of Death, see Claudin, A. Histoire de l'imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle, v. 2, pages 42-43, 46-48, 52-53.
• Some borders contain purely ornamental cuts. "With the new borders of scrolls, foliage with figures of boys, centaurs, griffins, rabbits, showing the German influence upon the style of the pure French horae"--New York Public Library. Spencer Collection of illustrated books.

Indexed In (note)

• Universal Short Title Catalogue
• Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle
• English short title catalogue
• Hoskins, E. Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis
• Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle
• Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)
• New York Public Library. Spencer Collection of illustrated books

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Bodleian Library and Stonyhurst College, Whalley, Lancs. copies) via Early English Books Online.

Language (note)

• In Latin, with some English and (in captions in the borders) Middle French.

Provenance (note)

• Blaauw (armorial bookplate; probably William Henry Blaauw, 1793-1870).

Binding (note)

• French olive morocco, browned by age, gilt; approximately 1640s. Sides with two triple fillets; the outer with minute ornaments at the angles; the inner, with larger ornaments at the angles, forms a center panel with a design partly pointillé and partly solid line: in the corners and center diamond-shaped ornaments surrounding an oval cartouche containing the motto "DEVS NOS REDIME" (on front panel) and "DON DE SE LIMER" (on back panel). Spine tooled with small ornaments. Edges gilt. The tools at the angles of the inner fillet resemble tools employed during the reign of Henri IV. See Weale, W.H.J. Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National Art Museum South Kensington Museum, 1898, page cvi. For a similar binding from approximately 1640, see The Henry Davis gift / Mirjam M. Foot, v. 2, 2010, no. 130.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1512 (Catholic. Officium)

OCLC

828592929

Author

Catholic Church.

Title

Officium Beate Marie [Vir]ginis ad vsum Saru[m] : cu[m] plurib[us] deuotis orationibus [et] co[n]te[m]platio[n]ibus imp[re]ssu[m] caracteribus, figuris, ac mortis accide[n]tia nouiter additis.

Publisher

[Paris] : Expensis honesti viri Symonis Vostre co[m]morantis Parisius in vico nouo e regione Diue Virginis Marie: in intersignio Sancti Iohannis euangeliste, [1512]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Universal Short Title Catalogue, 203195 http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/record/203195

Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle, BP16_102006 http://bp16.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb418750192/

English short title catalogue, S105512

Hoskins, E. Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, entries 34, 40

Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, v. 2, page 136 (1512, no. 353)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 15913 (formerly also 15906)

New York Public Library. Spencer Collection of illustrated books, page 18

Additional Formats

Also available online (Bodleian Library and Stonyhurst College, Whalley, Lancs. copies) via Early English Books Online.

Language

In Latin, with some English and (in captions in the borders) Middle French.

Binding

French olive morocco, browned by age, gilt; approximately 1640s. Sides with two triple fillets; the outer with minute ornaments at the angles; the inner, with larger ornaments at the angles, forms a center panel with a design partly pointillé and partly solid line: in the corners and center diamond-shaped ornaments surrounding an oval cartouche containing the motto "DEVS NOS REDIME" (on front panel) and "DON DE SE LIMER" (on back panel). Spine tooled with small ornaments. Edges gilt. The tools at the angles of the inner fillet resemble tools employed during the reign of Henri IV. See Weale, W.H.J. Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National Art Museum South Kensington Museum, 1898, page cvi. For a similar binding from approximately 1640, see The Henry Davis gift / Mirjam M. Foot, v. 2, 2010, no. 130. NN

Provenance

Blaauw (armorial bookplate; probably William Henry Blaauw, 1793-1870). NN

Place of Publication

France Paris.

Added Author

Vostre, Simon, active 1488-1520, publisher.

Pigouchet, Philippe, active 15th century-16th century, illustrator.

Master of the Unicorn Hunt, active approximately 1480-1510, illustrator.

Pichore, Jean, active 1502-1520, illustrator.

Container of (work): Catholic Church. Little office of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Catholic Church. Diocese of Salisbury (England)

Blaauw, William Henry, 1793-1870, former owner.

Added Title

Mortis accidentia.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1512 (Catholic. Officium)