ERRATUM: The handling of the book during the... Lot 43

ERRATUM: The handling of the book during the exhibition has caused a weakening of the spine of the upper cover which is now almost entirely split. In Latin and French. Printed in Paris by Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, September 16, 1498. In-octavo, [96 ff.], (a-l8 A8; signed quires), leaves printed on parchment, 250 x 145 mm (170 x 115 mm), 27 long lines in Gothic script; 20 full-page engraved and illuminated miniatures, 40 woodcut historical vignettes and frames attributed to the Master of the Very Small Hours of Anne of Brittany (Jean D'Ypres), pages with miniatures, gilt lettering on illuminated red or blue backgrounds, and rubricated framing by a certain Calixto Crotone: f.96v. "Scritto et miniato in franza nella citta de pariggi per Calixto Crot.". Binding with a cover in blue-night silk velvet (XIX c, commissioned by Caroline Bonaparte?), long spine, engraved iron clasps, gilt edges, top cover spine completely split (cover still attached to the volume) and bottom cover spine partially split, corners and center of covers rubbed (232 x 150 mm), wooden case covered in full olive basane, top cover with super ex-libris in gilt capital letters "PER USO DI S.M. LA REGINA DELLE DUE SICILIE CAROLINA BONAPARTE" underlined by two small irons and a frame roulette, small clasps, green velvet interior with gilt border with small irons on the inner corners, rubbing and small lacks on the corners; modern conservation case in green cloth. Exceptional copy richly illuminated of "the most famous of the Hours printed by Pigouchet" from the library of Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Sicily. TEXT - f.1r : " Ces preſentes heures a luſaige de Rōme fu/rēt acheuez le xvi. iour de Septembre. Lan Mil / CCCC.iiii.xx. et xviii. pour Simon voſtre. Li/braire demourant a Paris a la rue neuue noſtre / dame a lymage ſainct Iehan leuangeliſte " - f.1r: Anatomical man. - f.1v: "Almanac for xxi. year." - f.2r: "Benedictio dei patris cū āgelis ſuis ..." - f.3r-8v: Calendar: inc. "Ianuarius habet dies .xxxi / Luna vero .xxx. ...", bilingual quatrain at the end of each month - f.9r-11r : Evangelical pericopes - 11v-15r : " Egressus est dominus ihesus... ". - 15v-46r: Mixed hours (Hours of the Cross at Matins on f. 27, Hours of the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit for Matins on f. 28) - 46v-55r: Penitential psalms and litanies - 55v-66v: Office of the Dead - 67r-79v : Suffrages - 80r-96v : Various prayers in Latin and French including the prayer to St. Boniface, Missus est Gabriel, Officium de conceptione beate Marie, the penitential psalms in French and the seven orations to St. Gregory. ICONOGRAPHY List of full-page illuminated historical engravings: - 1r : Printer's mark - 1v : Anatomical man (not illuminated) - 2v : Chalice supported by two monks - 9r : Supplice of Saint John the Evangelist, with the three other vignettes of the evangelists (Luke, Matthew and Mark) on the following pages. - 11v : Kiss of Judas - 15v : Tree of Jesse - 16r : Annunciation - 22v : Visitation - 27r: Crucifixion, with a vignette at the end of the hour - 28r: Pentecost - 29r : Nativity, with a vignette at the end of the hour - 31r : Announcement to the shepherds, with a vignette at the end of the hour - 33v: Adoration of the shepherds - 34r : Adoration of the Magi, with a vignette at the end of the hour - 35v: Presentation in the temple, with a vignette at the end of the hour. - 37v : Flight to Egypt, with a vignette at the end of the hour. - 40r : Death of the Virgin, with a vignette at the end of the hour. - 46v : Death of Uriah - 47r : Bathsheba at the baths - 55v : Last Judgment - 56r : The rich man and Lazarus - 67r : Allegory of the Church, with many painted vignettes of the saints in the Suffrages. - 69r : Deposition of the Cross - 80r : Saint Boniface in prayer The engravings are attributed to the Master of the Very Small Hours of Anne of Brittany, also known today as the Master of the Apocalypse-Rose, and belong to sets 2 and 3 of the Vostre et Pigouchet material (see Tenschert and Nettekoven, Horae, 16 and Avril and Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France, 1440-1520. Quand la peinture était dans les livres, 1993, p.268-269). They were illuminated by an illuminator of Italian origin, a certain Calixto Crotone: colophon on f.96v. "Scritto et miniato in franza nella citta de pariggi per Calixto Crot.". PROVENANCE - Giuseppe Capecelatro, Archbishop of Taranto (1734-1826): ex-dono. Around 1812 Giuseppe Capecelatro, archbishop of Taranto, offered the volume to Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, sister of Napo