1028 - MASTER OF THE GENEVA LATINI (or workshop of) Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin with prayers in French. Rouen c. 1495 8vo, 21,8 x 14,5 cm: 136 lvs, vellum, Gothic hand, brown ink on 21 lines (writing area 13,0 x 7,5 cm), rubricated, initials, 56 miniatures, every page with three-quarter floral border (18,5 x 10,5/11,0 cm) (some images sl. chipped in some places). Very fine condition. 17th-c. binding: grey-pink velvet over parchment over wooden boards, gilt edges, 1 blank flyleaf at beginning and 1 at end (sm. traces of use with minimal loss of velvet at ends of most raised bands), contemp. red velvet case. Magnificent and luxurious Book of Hours illuminated with 56 miniatures by the Master of the Geneva Latini or by his workshop, from a prestigious noble family from Nevers. Content and illumination: Genealogy Bourgoing 1525-1547 by Guillaume V Bourgoing (1 lf), listing 16 (!) sons and daughters; Oraison très devote à Dieu (3 lvs, last page blank) with 1 small miniature with Christ on the Cross; Calendar in French (12 lvs) with a few lines on the month in Latin in blue and red pen and burnished gold, 2 small miniatures per month with a typical occupation of the season and the corresponding sign of the zodiac, in the lower border of the first page, the coat of arms with the marriage alliance of Guillaume IV Bourgoing (1469-?) and Françoise Collesson, and in the lower margin, in pen, “Bourgoing 1525” by the hand of Guillaume V (d. 1551); Gospel lessons or Pericopes of SS John, Luke, Matthew and Mark (5 lvs), large arch-topped miniature with St John on Patmos (12,0 x 7,5 cm), smaller square miniatures for the other Apostles (6,0 x 5,5 cm) in the text; Obsecro te & O Intemerata (5 lvs), each with a square miniature (6,0 x 5,5 cm), 1 with an angel playing on a lute standing before the Virgin and Child, and 1 with the Pietà; Hours of the Virgin including 1° Matins (12 lvs, last p. blank), full-page miniature (21,4 x 12,2 cm), in a Gothic architectural frame, arch-topped, divided in 2 scenes by 4 lines of text in a cartouche, at the top, the Annunciation and, at the bottom as a predella, the Virgin sitting at a loom visited by an angel (minimal cropping at the upper margin, some small chipping at the black bottom line), 2° Lauds (8 lvs), arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Visitation in a landscape, on 4 lines of text; 3° Prime (5 lvs, last p. blank), arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Nativity, on 4 lines of text; 4° Tierce (4 lvs, last p. blank), arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Annunciation to the shepherds, on 4 lines of text; 5° Sext (4 lvs, last p. blank), arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Adoration of the Magi, on 4 lines of text; 6° None (3 lvs), arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Presentation in the temple, on 4 lines of text; 7° Vespers (5 lvs, last p. blank), arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Massacre of the Innocents, on 4 lines of text; 8° Complete(4 lvs), arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Coronation of the Virgin, on 4 lines of text; Penitential Psalms & Litany of the Saints (13 lvs), full-page miniature (19,5 x 12,0 cm), in a Gothic architectural frame, arch-topped, divided in 2 scenes by 4 lines of text in a cartouche, at the top, a large battle scene with David and the Philistines, the first with a pennant on which the motto “Vrie” in gold on an azure background, the second with a standard of three golden crescents on azure, at the bottom as a predella, King David and Bathsheba (the veil covering Bathseba is a later overpainting, some chipping on the clothes of both protagonists and in the green of the grass); Hours of the Cross (10 lvs, last p. blank), matins till compline, full-page miniature (19,0 x 13,0 cm), in a Gothic architectural frame, divided in 2 scenes by 4 lines of text in a cartouche, at the top, the Crucifixion, and at the bottom as a predella, Christ carrying the Cross (some light rubbing and minimal chipping); Hours of the Holy Spirit (5 lvs, last p. blank), matins till compline, arch-topped miniature (12,0 x 7,0 cm) with the Baptism of Christ, on 4 lines of text; Office of the Dead (29 lvs), vespers, matins, lectures and lauds, full-page miniature (19,7 x 12,5 cm), in a Gothic architectural frame, arch-topped, divided in 2 scenes by 4 lines of text in a cartouche, at the top, Job on the dung heap, and at the bottom as a predella, Job beaten by Satan; Suffrages (8 lvs) with antiphons for SS Michael the Archangel, Sebastian, Anthony the Anchorite, Nicolas, Claude, Adrian, Anthony of Padua, Leonard, Edmund, Anna, Margaret and Catherine, each with a miniature (6,0 x 6,0 cm) with the saint, in the lower margin, the coat of arms with the marriage alliance of Guillaume V Bourgoing (d. 1551) and Philippa Le Clerc du Tremblay (d. after 1572); Oraison à la glorieuse Vierge Marie (1 lv), small miniature (4,0 x 3,5 cm) with the Virgin and Child as Sedes Sapientiae. Use of Paris: Cal