Hōrai tēs aeiparthenou Marias kat'ethos tēs rōmaïkēs aulēs
Subtitle: Hepta psalmoi tēs metanoias = Horae beatiss[imae] uirginis secu[n]dum consuetudinem romanae curiae : Septem psalmi poenitentiales cu[m] laetaniis & orationibus
Publisher: Aldo Manuzio
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Venice
Language: grc; lat
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Prayers and devotions; Greek; Catholic Church
Work titles: Book of hours
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Colophon (leaf [xi]8r): Enetiēsin etypōthē par'aldō; ouk aneu mentoi pronomiou; Chiliostō tetrakosiostō ennenēkostō hevdomō apo tēs Theogonias etei; mēnos poseideōnos pemptē histamenou; epi archontos Augustinou Varvadikou tēn vasilida tōn poleōn tautēn eutychōs ēniochountos.

Signatures: [alpha]-[xi]⁸; [zeta]4 signed [epsilon]4.

Title-page, headings, rubrics, woodcut vinework and floral headpieces and initials, and letterpress capitals red-printed.

Woodcut of the Annunciation on leaf [alpha]1v.

Printed on half-sheets of "median"-size paper.

Quire [kappa] is known in 2 settings, designated 'A' and 'B' by Bühler. Cf. C.F. Bühler, "Notes on two incunabula printed by Aldus Manutius," PBSA 36 (1942): 18-26.

Some copies have a prefixed 16-leaf section, signed a-b⁸, containing the "Breuissima introductio ad litteras Graecas" of Aldo Manuzio. Cf. Bühler.

Hain-Reichling, 8830.

Proctor, 5560.

Goff, H-391.

Sander, 5065.

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1497:13.

BM 15th cent., V, 558 (IA.24448).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ih00391000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2654.

Bequest; William King Richardson; 1951; 50R-86.

In Greek, with title-page in Greek and Latin and the "Breuissima introductio" in Latin.

Autograph of Edward Herbert, 2d Earl of Powis, inside front cover.

This copy has Bühler's B setting of quire [kappa] and lacks the "Breuissima introductio".

Various forms of the letters of the Greek alphabet written in early MS on front flyleaf.

Bound in contemporary dark brown blind-stamped leather over paste-paper boards, vellum endleaves; in a dark blue morocco solander case, 14 cm.