[PRINTED HOURS]. Heures à l'usage de Rome In Latin and French, printed on vellum, enhanced with gouache and liquid gold Paris, Germain Hardouyn, almanac for the years 1526 to 1537 With 14 large metal engravings (including typographical mark) enhanced and illuminated and 21 small metal engravings enhanced and illuminated (Artist associated with Hardouyn's workshop?). Format in-8°, 108 ff. preceded by two paper endpapers, followed by 4 paper endpapers (the first two older, with inscriptions), work dated according to the almanac for the years 1526-1537, some missing [missing 4 large engravings (sig. a2, c5, e7, k7)] (collation: A-O8, missing sig. a2, c5, e7, k7); pale red ink ruling; title with Hardouyn mark covered by a painted shield, coat of arms replacing the mark, coat of arms: azure a chevron Or and three roses Or (?); "Gothic" typeface, 24 lines per full page, initials painted in liquid gold on red and/or blue backgrounds; paragraph marks in liquid gold on colored backgrounds, architectural framing in liquid gold around the large engravings, 14 large figures and 21 small engravings enhanced by a contemporary hand; traces of pilgrim insignia formerly sewn into the margins (insignia missing) at the end of the book (e.g. sig. o1, o2 verso, o3, o3 verso, o4, o5, o6, o7); handwritten inscriptions added in the margins (captions for pilgrim badges). Bound in 16th-century brown calf, gilt framing on covers, four gilt fillets framing covers, olive leaf motifs at four corners, central oval medallion with the Crucifixion between Mary and John the Evangelist, 3-nerved spine with gilt fleurons and initials "RB". Epidermal binding, brittle and split jaws, small leather chips in places, leather missing from spine, but nonetheless a 16th-century binding. Binding dimensions: 170 x 110 mm; leaf dimensions: 163 x 105 mm. Good condition inside. Parchment stained in places, not serious. Some raised engravings with rubbing (sig. a1, f1). Bohatta, Bibliographie der Livres d'heures..., Vienna, 1924, no. 1113 - Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, III, 1017. Absent from Tenschert, Horae B.M.V. 158 Studenbuchdrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle 1490-1550, Heribert Tenschert, 2003-2015, vols. I-IX. Elegant book of hours printed on vellum, with engravings enhanced in period colors, probably by an artist from the workshop of Germain Hardouyn, who also had the impressions from his presses personalized and painted. Provenance: 1. Parisian printing by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn, sworn bookseller, according to the colophon. A circa 1526 date for this edition is deduced from the almanac for the years 1526-1537. The Hardouyn brothers were the most important players on the Parisian Book of Hours market in the first half of the 16th century. Following in the footsteps of Vérard, Vostre and Kerver, who shaped the Parisian printing of books of hours during the incunable period, the Hardouyn brothers took on a more Renaissance spirit, commissioning in-8° and in-4° metal engravings based on drawings by the illuminator Jean Pichore and his workshop. - 2 Inscription on verso of first endpaper: "Les presante heure apartienne a Francoise Marin Angers". Opposite, on the recto of the second endpaper, other inscriptions, including "Beauchampt" (?). - 2. A. Barbet collection. Barbet, with inscription on upper flyleaf "A. Barbet 269a". Text: Sig. a1, Title with typographical mark by Hardouyn, repainted, two cherubs holding a shield, certainly the coat of arms of the first patron who had this copy personalized. Sig. a1verso, Prayer to the Holy Host. Sig. a2 missing (most likely the Anatomical Man). Sig. a3, Almanac for the years 1521-1540. Sig. a3 verso-b3, Calendar. Sig. b3 verso -b6 verso, Evangelical Pericopes. Sig. b7-c4 verso, Passion according to Saint John, followed by prayers including the Stabat Mater (missing sig c5). Sig. c6-h3, Heures de la Vierge, à l'usage de Rome. Sig. h3 verso-h6 verso, Hours of the Cross. Sig. h7-j1, Hours of the Holy Spirit. Sig. j1 verso-j4 verso, Hours of the Conception. Sig. j5-k6 verso, Penitential Psalms and litanies (missing sig c5). Sig. k8-m8, Office des morts (missing beginning). Sig. m8 verso-o7 verso, Suffrages to the saints and prayers. Sig. o7 verso-o8 verso, Table of contents. Sig. o8 verso, colophon : Cy finissent ces presentes heures a // l'usaige de Romme toutes au long sans // riens requerir ont esté nouvellement // imprimés a Paris par Germain Har//douyn imprimeur et lib.