| Record ID | cp011697 |
| Voet reference number | 1367 |
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| Uniform title | HORAE |
| Title page transcription | [Within copper engraved border:] HORÆ ‖ BEATISSIMAE ‖ VIRGINIS ‖ MARIÆ, ‖ AD VSVM ROMANVM ‖ REPVRGATISSIMAE. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXX. |
| Collation | 8º [129]: a-g⁸, A-Y⁸, aa-cc⁸; pages [1-464], [1-48] |
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| Pages | Same edition as cp011098, with some changes in the illustrations and an appendix (aa-cc8; pages [1-48]), containing: Horae Beati Antonii (pages [1-5]); Commemorationes Sanctorum ([6-18]); Versus Sancti Gregorii ([18-19]); Commemorationes Sanctorum ([20-27]); Officium S. Mariae Magdalenae ([27-44; starting with a Spanish heading: 'Comiencan las Horas quotidianas de la bendicta sancta Maria Magdalena']); Iesus Maria ([45-46]; in Spanish); De Sancta Martha virgine, Antiphona ad vesperas, Oratio ([46]); Blank ([47-48]) |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) vignette on title-page: decorative cartouche (70 × 70; monogram of Pieter Huys) with Plantin's compasses and device, and in the centre-part the coat-of-arms of the Duke of Alva 2) Other illustrations identical as in cp011098 3) All pages (even the title-page and the blanks) within a copper engraved border; some 7 different types (one with the monogram of the engraver Pieter Huys), showing animals and flowers, identical to those used in the [1571] edition of Arias Montanus, Humanae salutis monumenta (see cp010093) |
| Copies | Biblioteca Nacional de España - R 3581 |
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| Note 1 | This edition of the Horae in 8º of 1570 was especially arranged for the Duke of Alva; his coat-of-arms figures on the title-page; all pages are printed within engraved borders; an appendix of 48 pages is added. |
| Note 2 | The printing of the additional quires (ABC Horarium Ducis) was paid to the pressman Bartholomeus van Passel 1 florins Carolus guilders 13 stuivers on 13 May 1569 (Arch. 31, folio 148 verso). |
| Note 3 | The printing of the engravings and borders for the Alva-edition was done by Mijnken Liefrinck who received on 16 October 1570 for 870 sheets 'en figures du livre du duc d'Alve', at 10 stuivers per 100 sheets, 4 florins Carolus guilders 7 stuivers The note continues, referring probably to the same Alva-edition: 'Item elle a imprimé avec vignettes en tout 1620 [feuilles]', which, at 4 florins Carolus guilders per 100 sheets, came to 64 florins Carolus guilders (Arch. 16, opening 136 right). 'Feuilles' can stand either for quires or for pages. In the first part of the entry 870 'feuilles…en figures' can mean the pages with the 17 illustrations and the title-page reproduced in each copy, or some 50 copies in all. In the second part of the entry the 1,620 '[feuilles] avec vignettes' stand most likely for quires - meaning again some 50 copies printed. |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296 folio 8 verso (Horae Rom. in 8º pro illustration Duce Albano avec fig. et vignettes [= border engravings] de cuivre, [price:] flor. 8). |
| Note 5 | According to Bowen, Voet incorrectly refers to the number of the Madrid copy as: R 3581. (Bowen, Books of Hours, 228) |
| Note 6 | Bowen also states that another title page of this edition with the same representation of Alva’s coat of arms is preserved in Arch. 1228 folio 34 recto. She suggests that this title page is significant due to the lack of borders. For while it is possible that the borders were cut away from the outer edges of this page, the margins of blank paper around the title page are wide enough to suggest that no borders had ever been printed on this page. Bowen thus raises the possibility that yet another variant of this Horae was printed, i.e., with the arms of the Duke of Alva on the title page, but without the borders present in the copy catalogued under cp011697. (Bowen, Books of Hours, 228) |
| Note 7 | Bowen mentions that all variants of this edition were set and printed as a single edition between 13 May and 8 July 1570. She refers to Arch. 31, folio 131 recto for payments for the setting of this Horae and to Arch. 31, folio 148 verso for payments for the printing. Furthermore Bowen adds, payments made to Mynken Liefrinck between October 1570 and March 1571 for the printing of the engravings used to to illustrate this edition are recorded in Arch. 16, opening 136 right. (Bowen, Books of Hours, 229) |
| Further reading | Bowen, Karen Lee. Christopher Plantin’s Books of Hours: Illustration and Production. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf Publishers, 1997. |
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