Book of Hours, Use of Rome (Latin)

Title

Coverage

Venice

Publisher

Nicolas Jenson

Date

1475

Description

A rare miniature incunable by a renowned typefounder and printer. The binding design is inspired by a 1540s Parisian binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. It was created in Paris by Théodore Hagué for Ambroise Firmin-Didot, in the 1870s. Hagué would later become notorious for his forged re-creations of “medieval” and “Renaissance” pastiche bindings foisted upon the unwitting. This binding, however, is an honest homage to a Renaissance master.

Source

Gift of Jane Elizabeth Crane Andrews, 1930.

Format

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