Author: DUVAL, Nicolas.- Calligraphy.- Nouvelles heures.-
Title: Heures nouvelles gravées au burin. Dédiées au Roy Par N. Duval Secretaire ordinaire de sa chambre.
Description: Paris [Elles se vendent à], Chez J.Mariette Libraire et Graveur, rue St. Jacques à la victoire et aux Colonnes de Hercule. No date [about 1700]. In 12mo. [Binding 12 x 8.5 cm]. W. engraved title, verso blank, and 212, 8 & 1 entirely engraved pages, w. many decorated initials, head- and tailpieces, ornaments and titleframes. Contemp full red mor., spine in 6 compartments, elaborately gilttooled, title in gilt 'Heures Burins'. Covers w. songle giltruled dotted line and a floral gilttooled ornament in each of the corners. Inside dentelles. (212, 8, I pp. engraved, I (blank) p.). (All egdes gilt. (Original marbled endpapers.). (Pink silken reading ribbon.). (Upper free endp. w. extensive 1750 - 1890 history in the form of owner's inscriptions in ink of this booklet handed down in the family.) Volgende text aanpassen:.... Published by Elisabeth, the daughter of Louis Senault. A beautiful, rare and well bound example of this devotional work engraved throughout, employing a large amount of floral and landscape head- and tailpieces, non repetitive initials, double rule borders, calligraphic head- and end pieces, landscape vignettes, geometric forms, etc. Quite exquisite and beautiful: See Bonacini pp. 307 - 308: Comp. Cohen - de Ricci, 487: Whalley, 'The Pen's Excellence', p. 200, [Senault worked ] '... in the tradition of the handwritten devotional works of the school of the celebrated Jarry ... [and if you couldn't afford one] ... then this engraved prayer book, which looked so like some of the manuscript ones, made a good substitute.': Universal Cat. of Books on Art, III, 561: PMM exhibition catalogue (1963), comp. item 98 (Br. Mus. section): 'Louis Senault, another professional calligrapher, followed Pierre Moreau in producing two writing books (one dated 1668) and then concentrating on successive editions of a devotional work printed from the same plates. But while Moreau finished by producing printed books with some of the characteristics of handwriting, Senault [and his daughter Elisabeth] endeavoured to preserve in his engraved books the full flavour of a contemporary manuscript. After his death his daughter, Elisabeth Senault, produced some equally attractive smaller engraved 'Heures Nouvelles' dedicated to the Grand Dauphin.': Comp. Jammes, cat 262, 'Belles écritures', items 39, 40: Dorothy Miner (ed.), 2000 years of Calligraphy [a 3 part exhibition: Baltimore Museum of Art; Peabody Institute Library; Walters Art Gallery], 1965, comp. item 101 [On one of Louis' 'Heures'] '... In Latin and French. Sloping Roman script with erect roman capitals, numerous engraved vignettes and culs-de-lampe.... Copperplate engravings. ... The elegant roman script of this book is ornamented with capitals framed by vignette landscapes or designs of birds or flowers. Calligraphic flourishes or floral designs frequently fill empty spaces at the bottom of a page. Prints by artists such as Israel Silvestre surely inspired the landscape vignettes which ornament the book ...': Although in a smaller format and calligraphically on a somewhat simpler scale than the publications by her father, the 'Heures' by his daughter Elisabeth strives to match her father's work in every respect.

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