105 - [Post-incunabulum] [Hours printed on vellum] KERVER (Thielman). Hore intemerate Dei genitricis Virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum. Paris, Thielman Kerver, January 20, 1507. One volume, in-8, full light brown crushed morocco, Renaissance-style pastiche binding, spine with five raised bands highlighted by blind-stamped fillets, panels adorned with a blind-stamped grid pattern, covers decorated with a wide frame featuring a latticework motif, enclosing a central panel composed of five vertical bands of foliage and floral motifs embossed in relief, the whole framed by multiple embossed bands, gilt and chiseled edges, metal fittings at the corners and along the edges of the covers, two metal clasps (binding signed GRUEL). Incomplete copy of 7 ff.: a1 (title and figure of the Anatomical Man on the verso), c6, d6 through d8, h6, and i2. It comprises 93 ff. out of the 100 in the complete edition, from signatures a-m⁸, n⁴.

[Post-incunabulum] [Hours printed on vellum] KERVER (Thielman). Hore intemerate Dei genitricis Virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum. Paris, Thielman Kerver, January 20, 1507. One volume, in-8, full light brown crushed morocco, Renaissance-style pastiche binding, spine with five raised bands highlighted by blind-stamped fillets, panels adorned with a blind-stamped grid pattern, covers decorated with a wide frame featuring a latticework motif, enclosing a central panel composed of five vertical bands of foliage and floral motifs embossed in relief, the whole framed by multiple embossed bands, gilt and chiseled edges, metal fittings at the corners and along the edges of the covers, two metal clasps (binding signed GRUEL). Incomplete copy of 7 ff.: a1 (title and figure of the Anatomical Man on the verso), c6, d6 through d8, h6, and i2. It comprises 93 ff. out of the 100 in the complete edition, from signatures a-m⁸, n⁴. The first of the five editions published by Kerver in 1507 of this Book of Hours for use in Rome, printed in Gothic type on 29 lines, with an almanac covering the years 1506 through 1530. Each page features a border decorated with foliage motifs and historiated compartments. This copy contains 12 large engraved compositions occupying two-thirds of the page. This illustration is directly inspired by the one Kerver used for the same Book of Hours printed on September 16, 1499. ONE OF THE COPIES PRINTED ON VELIN SKIN, rubricated, featuring initials, a large number of capital letters, line ends, and fly-leaves illuminated in blue, red, and gold at the time. According to Brunet, V, 1614, Kerver’s books of hours are less common than those of Simon Vostre. “This is probably because fewer copies were printed on vellum and because the copies on paper have not survived.” Bibliography: Moreau, *Chronological Inventory of 16th-Century Parisian Editions*, I, 1507, no. 102; Bohatta, *Bibliography of Books of Hours*, no. 830; Tenschert, *Horae B. M. V.*, II, no. 58; Brunet, V, 1614.