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Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 66v, Text

Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 66v, Text

1510
(French, Paris, active 1493–1517)
(French, Paris, active c.1480–1510)
France, Paris
112 printed folios on parchment, bound
Overall: 16.7 x 10.5 x 3 cm (6 9/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.276.66.b
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The workshop of Guillaume le Rouge was in the Neuve Notre-Dame near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral.

Description

Illustrated prayer books called books of hours remained popular with Europe’s elite well into the era of printing technology. This example belongs to a printed edition of five by the Parisian printer and engraver Guillaume Le Rouge, dating to 1510. Though printed on vellum (not paper), its 62 engraved pictures were hand-colored by an illuminator much like a traditional manuscript. By the mid-1480s, Paris was the center of production for books of hours with printed texts and engraved ornament. This book is therefore a hybrid fusing two distinct production methods—illumination and printing—representing the waning phase of the illuminator’s art prior to the complete transformation to printed books.
  • -2009
    [Les Enluminures LTD., London], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2009-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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    Lacombe, Paul. Livres d'heures imprimés su XVe et au XVe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèque publiques de Paris: catalogue. Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1963. nos. 210 and 211
    Moreau, Brigitte, Philippe Renouard, and Stéphanie Öhlund-Rambaud. Inventaire chronologique des éditions Parisiennes du XVIe siècle. Paris: Service des Travaux Historiques de la Ville de Paris, 1972. 1510, no. 119
    Tenschert, Heribert, and Ina Nettekoven. Horae B.M.V. 158 Stundendrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle, 1490 - 1550 3 3. Rotthalmünster: Tenschert, 2003. pp. 122-28, 690 ff.
    Nettekoven, Ina. Der Meister der Apokalypsenrose der Sainte Chapelle und die Pariser Buchkunst um 1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.
    Hindman, Sandra. Pen to Press, Paint to Print: Manuscript Illumination and Early Prints in the Age of Gutenberg. Paris: Les Enluminures, 2009. no. 14
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