Book of Hours Printed by Thielman Kerver in Paris in 1507, Use of Rome

Essay: "Use of Rome" and the 1507 Kerver Book of Hours - Ryan O'Connell

Languages: Mostly Latin with some French and Spanish

Illustrations: Kerver’s printer’s mark, 2 illustrated tables, 36 small metalcuts and 19 large metalcuts (1 repeat)

Essay: Comparison of Two Books of Hours Printed by Thielman Kerver - Chase Shephard

In-8° format, i (parchment) + 152 + i (parchment) unnumbered parchment leaves, complete, 19 quires (collation a-t8), signed in the first half of each quire with a minuscule letter followed by a roman numeral with slight variations in the notation: a.i a.ij a.iij a.iiij- h.i, etc.

Justification text and border 150 x 90, text alone 105 x 60 mm

Printed in a rounded gothic font on up to 25 lines, rubrics and headings within the borders printed in red, full metalcut borders on every text page

Kerver’s unicorn printer’s mark above the last page’s colophon dating the book to June 23, 1507

16^th-century binding (for details please see condition report)

sig. a1-a2, Table of contents in Latin

sig. a2v-a4v, Computistical tables

sig. a2v, small metalcut, Peter, within the circle for finding the dominical letter

sig. a3, small metalcut, James, within the circle for finding of the golden number

sig. a5-b8v, Calendar, formatted with two pages per month, with cisiolanus verses and verses on the zodiac

Essay: Kerver's 1507 Book of Hours and the Four "Spanish Saints" - Sophia Germond

sig. c1-c4v, Speculum consciencie

Essay: Speculum Conscientie ("Mirror of Conscience") - Halia Daley

sig. c5-e6v, Hours of the Passion, c5, Matins; d2, Prime; d3v, Terce; d5v, Sext; d8, None; e2v, Vespers, e4v, Compline

sig. c5, large metalcut, Arrest of Christ within a Renaissance frame (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

sig. d2, small metalcut, Buffeting of Christ

sig. d3v, small metalcut, Carrying the Cross

sig. d5v, small metalcut, Nailing Christ to the Cross

sig. d8, small metalcut, Crucifixion

sig. e2v, small metalcut, Lamentation

sig. e6v-f3v, Passion according to John

sig. f3v, Prayers including the Stabat mater

sig. f3v, small metalcut, Crucifixion

sig. f5, large metalcut, Christ with the cross, tomb and the instruments of the Passion (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver

Essay: Arma Christi- Bridget Eide

sig. g1 -g5, Gospel Pericopes

sig. g1v, large metalcut, Martyrdom of John the Evangelist by being boiled in oil (Octave series Pichore workshop for Kerver)

Essay: Martyrdom of St. John the Evangelist - David Powers

sig. g2v, small metalcut, Luke

sig. g3, small metalcut, Matthew

sig. g3v, small metalcut, Mark

sig. g4v, large metalcut, Tree of Jesse (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

Essay: The Tree of Jesse - Bridget Eide

sig. g5-l4, Hours of the Virgin (Use of Rome)

sig. g5, large metalcut, Annunciation (Metalcut by the Master of the T res Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

beg. sig. g5v, Extensive marginal narrative : Typological Series

Essay: Typological Images and Thought – Courtney Rhoades

sig. h2, large metalcut, Visitation (Octave series Pichore workshop for Kerver)

sig. h7v, large metalcut, Nativity (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

Essay: The Nativity - Jereme Shaver

sig. i2, large metalcut, Annunciation to the Shepherds (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

sig. i4v, large metalcut, Adoration of the Magi (Octave series Pichore workshop for Kerver)

sig. i6v, large metalcut, Presentation (Octave series Pichore workshop for Kerver)

sig. i8v, large metalcut, Flight into Egypt (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

Essay: The Flight into Egypt ­- Jereme Shaver

sig. k4, large metalcut, Coronation of Mary (Metalcut by the Master of the T res Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman)

sig. l4-l7, Mass of the Virgin

sig. l4, small metalcut, Madonna and Child with angel

sig. l7-m2v, Hours of the Trinity

beg. sig. m2, Extensive marginal narrative : Signs of the Apocalypse

Essay: Signs of the Apocalypse - Cora Finney

sig. l7v, large metalcut, Trinity with the signs of the four Evangelists (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

Essay: The Three-Faced Representation of the Holy Trinity - Zoe Goedecke

sig. m2v-o7, Office of the Dead (Use of Rome)

sig. m7, large metalcut, Raising of Lazarus (Octave series Pichore workshop for Kerver)

beg. sig. o1, Extensive marginal narrative : Dance of Death

Essay: Danse Macabre - Stefano Parparo

sig. o7v-q3, Penitential Psalms and Litany (beginning on p6v)

sig. q3v, large metalcut, Pentecost (Octave series Pichore workshop for Kerver)

sig. q3-q5v, Hours of the Holy Spirit

sig. q5v-q8, Hours of All Saints

sig. q8-rl, Hours of Corpus Christi

sig. r1 -r3, Hours of the Holy Cross

sig. rlv, large metalcut, Crucifixion (Octave series Pichore workshop for Kerver)

Essay: The Crucifixion - Shawn Peralta

sig. r3v, small metalcut, Archangel Michael

sig. r3-r4v, Hours of Guardian Angel

sig. r5-r6v, Hours of St. Barbara

sig. r5, small metalcut, St. Barbara

sig. r6v, small metalcut, Vernicle

sig. r7v-r8v, [Prayer], Sequitur oratio denota ad ymaginem iesu christi .... , incipit, “Salue sancta facies ...”

sig. r7, small metalcut, Madonna and Child

sig. s1-s7, Suffrages of Peter and Paul, Andrew, James, John the Evangelist, Thomas, Philip and James, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude, John the Baptist, Luke, Mark, Stephen, Lawrence, George, Sebastian, Christopher, Nicholas, Anthony, Catherine, Anne, Mary Magdalene, and Margaret

sig. s1, small metalcut, Saints Peter and Paul

sig. s1v, small metalcut, St. James as a pilgrim

sig. 1v, small metalcut, Martyrdom of St. John the Evangelist in boiling oil

sig. 2v, small metalcut, Matthew

sig. s3, small metalcut, Beheading of St. John the Baptist

sig. s3, small metalcut, Luke

sig. s3v, small metalcut, Mark

sig. s3v, small metalcut, Stephen

sig. s4, small metalcut, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

sig. s4, small metalcut, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

sig. 4v, small metalcut, St. Christopher carrying Christ

sig. 5v, small metalcut, St. Nicholas

sig. 5v, small metalcut,. Anthony

sig. s6, small metalcut, St. Catherine

sig. 6v, small metalcut, St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read

sig. 6v, small metalcut, Mary Magdalene

sig. s7, small metalcut, St. Margaret and the dragon

sig. s7-s8, Seven prayers of St. Gregory

s7v, large metalcut, Christ with the Instruments of the Passion,- repeating sig. f5

Essay: Arma Christi- Bridget Eide

sig. s8v, small metalcut, Archangel Michael

sig. s8v, Suffrage of St. Michael

sig. t1-t3v, Prayer, incipit, "O dulcissime domine ... "

sig. t 1 v, small metalcut, Standing bishop

sig. t3v-t4, Gospel of John in Spanish, incipit, "Enel comienco era el fijo de dios ...”

Essay: 16th-Century French-Spanish Book Trade - Henry Tallman

sig. t4v, large metalcut, Immaculate Mary (Metalcut by the Master of the Tres Petites Heures of Anne de Bretagne for Thielman Kerver)

sig. t4-t7v, Hours of the Conception of the Virgin

sig. t7v-t8, Suffrage of St. Roche

sig. t7v, small metalcut, St. Roche as pilgrim

sig. t8v, Colophon with Kerver’s early unicorn mark

Essay: Kervers's Colophon - Quinn Haslett