The book was reprinted in 1549, in the same form, by Renaud and Claude Chaudière, successors to Simon de Colines.
II. In the same year 1543, Simon de Colines published another book of Hours, octavo, which seems to be a smaller edition of the one I have just described. Like that one, it is composed of 22 signatures, A to Y.
The title-page reads: HORÆ IN LAUDEM DEI AC BEATISSIMÆ VIRGINIS MARIÆ AD USUM ROMANUM, UNA CUM CALENDARIO RECENS [sic] EMENDATO. This within a portico-shaped border, at the top of which is the name Simon de Colines. At the foot of the page: 'Parisiis, apud Simonem Colinæum.—1543.'
As in the quarto Hours of the same date the borders of the text pages are arabesques of two styles, some in line and the others in black; and the drawings, to the number of 13, are set in a special border. Some of these borders bear the date 1537, and one of them has the name Simon de Colines in full, which proves that the engravings were executed for him. A list of the drawings follows; only one of them is signed, but all seem to be the work of Tory.
- 1. St. John writing his Gospel (signed).
- 2. Calvary.
- 3. The Salutation.
- 4. The Visitation.
- 5. The Nativity.
- 6. The Annunciation to the Shepherds.
- 7. The Adoration of the Magi.
- 8. The Presentation.
- 9. The Flight into Egypt.
- 10. The Coronation of the Virgin.
- 11. Pentecost.
- 12. Bathsheba at the Bath.
- 13. Job on the Dunghill.
The only copy of this book that I know of formerly belonged to the late M. Renouvier, of Montpellier, who showed it to me in 1858. It lacks ten leaves immediately following the title-page, which leaves undoubtedly contained the calendar.
1537