A la louenge de dieu et de sa tres saincte et glorieuse mere. Paris: Antoine Chappiel for Gilles Hardouyn, 22 August 1504

EXTREMELY RARE BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED ON VELLUM
ILLUSTRATION FROM MASTER OF THE APOCALYPSE OF THE ROSE'S ATELIER.
THE ONLY KNOWN COMPLETE COPY!

BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROMAN CHURCH. A la louenge de dieu et de sa tres saincte et glorieuse mere et a ledification de tous bo[n]s catholiques furent commences ces presentes heures A lusaige de Romme. Colophone: " …achevez la[n] mil. ccccc. [et] iiii. le. xxii. iour de aoust pour Gillet Hardouyn libraire marchant demoura[n]t a Paris sur le po[n]t au change a l'enseigne de la Rose Imprimeez par Anthoine Chappiel i[m]primeur demourant a Paris en la rue de beau vois a lenseigne des Connins " [Paris: Antoine Chappiel for Gilles Hardouyn, 22 August 1504].

8vo, (17 x 10 cm) binding from a reused middle age handwritten vellum page, with Gregorian music notations, gilt edges, ff. [80], signature A-K8. Gothic type, 32 lines. Text in Latin except for the prayer opening the volume and the title (A1r), the almanac (A1v), some prayers appearing at the end of the volume and the colophon (K8r) in French, almanac for years 1497-1520.
13 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS, 28 SMALLER WOODCUTS ILLUSTRATING THE GOSPELS, AND THE VARIOUS PRAYERS; HEAD-LETTERS ILLUMINATED IN BLUE, RED AND GOLD.
EXTREMELY RARE BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED ON VELLUM BY ANDRE' CHAPPIEL FOR GILLES HARDOUIN: ACCORDING TO WORLDCAT AND USTC, THERE ARE ONLY TWO OTHER RECORDED COPIES, AT BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE LYON, INCOMPLETE, MISSING THE LAST MINIATURE, RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, AND VERSAILLES, MISSING DIFFERENT QUIRES.
TEXT: f. A1r: versified prayer: " Jesus soit en ma teste et en mon entendeme[n]t || Jesus soit en mes yeulx [et] en mo[n] regardeme[n]t ||… "; f. A1v: almanac giving the dates of the " Dimanche des Brandons" (first Sunday of Lent or Quadragesima Sunday), Easter and Advent for the years 1497 to 1520; f. A2r-A4v: calendar; f. A5r-B1v: abstracts from the Gospels of the four Evangelists; f. B2r-F2v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome (f. B3r: Matins; f. B8v Lauds; f. C4v: Matins of the Holy Cross; f. C5v: Matins of the Holy Spirit; f. C6v: Prime; f. D1r: Terce; f. D3v: Sext; f. D6r: None; f. D8v: Vesper; f. D1r: Compline); f. F3r-G1v: seven Penitential Psalms followed by litanies and other prayers; f. G3r-H6r: Office of the Dead; f. H6r-K8r: various prayers; f. K8r: colophon.

ILLUSTRATIONS:
• Tree of Jesse, f B2v
• Annunciation, f B3r
• Visitation, f B8v
• Crucifixion, f C4v
• Pentecost, f C5v
• Nativity, C6v
• Adoration of the Shepherds, D1r
• Adoration of the Magi, D3v
• Presentation in the Temple, D6r
• Flight into Egypt, D8v
• Coronation of the Virgin E4r
• Anointing of King David by Samuel, F3r
• Rich man and Lazarus, G2r

28 small figures illustrating the Gospels and the various prayers at the end of the book (John the Apostle; Luke the Evangelist; Matthew the Apostle; Mark the Evangelist; the Crucifixion; Christ and the Angel; the Holy Shroud; the Flight into Egypt; the Archangel Michael; St. Johan the Baptist; John the Apostle; Saints Peter and Paul; Saint James; Saint Stephen; Saint Lawrence; Saint Christopher; Saint Sebastian; Saint Nicholas; Saint Anthony; Saint Anne; Saint Mary Magdalene; Saint Catherine; Saint Margaret; Saint Barbara; Saint Apollonia; Christ Pantocrator; Holy Mary; Saint Barbara).

The metalcuts used in this book were part of a series that both ANTHOINE CHAPPIEL and GUILLAUME ANABAT used for the Hardouin brothers. The series comes from the MASTER OF THE APOCALYPSE OF THE ROSE'S ATELIER.

ANTOINE CHAPPIEL, printer in Paris, 1500-1504, succeeded by Guillaume Anabat, 1505–1510.
Chappiel's earliest dated book is from 1500. The Inventaire chronlogique records dated books in 1502, 1503 and 1504. From 1502 to August 1504 he printed under the sign: "Au college de Triguet en la rue Sainct Jean de Latran; - In collegio Tregorensi (or: --nuncupato de Triguet) juxta sanctum 1ohannem Lateranensem ".

In August 1504 and on a Book of Hours without date we read: " Rue de Beauvois a lenseigne des Connins; Rue de rue sainct Jehan de Beauvais a lenseigne des Congnis. "

CONDITION: Very good copy of an extremely rare book of hours printed on vellum.

REFERENCES: Bohatta, 790; Lacombe, Books of Hours Printed in the 15th and the 16th Century, p. 87-88, No. 143bis, the Versailles copy, incomplete; Moreau, Inventaire Chronologique des Éditions Parisiennes du XVIe siècle, I, p. 128: 1504, No. 48; USTC 6689; Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby and Alexander Wilkinson, French Vernacular Books, Books published in the French language before 1601, Leiden, Brill, 2007, REF. 29496; Philippe Renouard, Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens, Minard, 1965; Heribert Tenschert, Horae b.m.v. 365 gedruckte Stundenbücher der Sammlung Bibermühle 1487–1586, 2015.