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[Horae.

Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis secundum usum Romanum]. (On the last leaf:) Naples, Mathias Moravus , 10.XI.1478. Cl.8°. Roman type, 14 lines.145 unnum. Leaves (instead of 164; without the first quire a with the calendar; quire numbering: b-k8, l-m4, n1-3 and 6-7, o2-8, p-q8,r4, s1-2 and 4-7, t2-9, u-y8; the first existing leaf replaced by an old handwritten facsimile). Printed in red and black throughout. Rubricated in red and blue, with numerous small initials in blue and red as well as 7 larger, multicolored initials highlighted in gold. Modern, black-brown marocco binding (signed Hedberg, Stockholm) with gilt-stamped spine title and rich ornamental cover stamping, gilt edges. ISTC ih00357360. GKW 13337. Goff O-35 (only two copies). Not in the British Museum. Bohatta, Horae I, 440. Bohatta, Horae II, 28.38. Prayer book printed on vellum in red and black throughout. Of great rarity. The ISTC records only 11 copies, 5 of which are incomplete; 9 copies are printed on vellum. Like our copy, the copy in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence lacks the first 12 leaves with the calendar. The Officium, printed and illuminated entirely in the style of a manuscript, can be found in the following libraries: in England in Manchester (2 copies, one uncomp.) and in the Bodleian Library in Oxford (uncomp.); in France in the Bibliothèque Nationale; in the USA in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York and the Rosenwald Collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; in Slovenia in Ljublijana; in Italy in Bologna (uncomp.), Florence (uncomp.), Milan and Naples (uncomp.). In his first dated book - the Supplementum to Nicolaus de Ausmo's Summa Pisanellae, printed in Genoa in 1474 - Mathias Moravus describes himself as coming from Olomouc; before 1475 he worked as a printer in Genoa together with Michael de Monaco. Mathias Moravus had been printing in Naples since 1475 and produced more than 30 prints, many of them on vellum. He is said to be the first printer to print in red and black and the first to print with Greek type. All prints by Mathias Moravus are extremely rare. In good condition; a faulty handwritten foliation at the head of most leaves. Handwritten scribbles in ink in the lower margin of two leaves (partly erased). The illuminated initials somewhat rubbed. The last leaf stained and replaced in the white margin. Handwritten ownership entry by Baron Per Hierta, Flämmstad, dated 1899 on the flyleaf - Thanks to Dott. Alfredo Damanti for preparing the collation.

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