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Brevarium Salzburgense. Venice: Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1482.
Two parts in one volume, 4o (155 x 120 mm). Collation: Part I: π8 (advertisement and calendar, here lacking); χ4 (table of psalms, here lacking); a-l12 m8; n o12 p10; q14; r-x12 y8. Part II: 1-312; 4-812; 914; 10-1512 16 178; A B12 C6 (breviarum gradualis and register, here lacking). 449 leaves (of 496; lacking first two quires [calendar and psalms], the last three quires [breviarum gradualis and register], blanks and three text leaves [3/12, 9/13,14]). 45 lines, double column. Gothic types 1:150 (headings), 2:74 (text), 3:63 (text), 4:63 (text). Printed in red and black. Initials supplied in alternate red and blue. (Long repaired tear on a1 crossing text with some loss of letters, old repair on x10 covering a few lines of text, lower corner renewed on 15/4 with some loss of text, a few marginal repairs, some leaves closely trimmed with letters occasionally shaved or cropped.) Late 16th-century German blind-panelled pigskin over wooden boards, historiated roll borders, dated 1596 on front cover, two brass fore-edge catches. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 19 August 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943.
FIRST EDITION of the Salzburg breviary, commissioned by Bernhard von Rohr, Archbishop of Salzburg. This is one of the first books printed by Nicolaus de Frankfordia after printing in partnership with Renner from 1473 to 1477. RARE: ISTC lists only 8 copies in institutional collections (including the present). Of those, only four are listed as complete and two are merely fragments. The only other copy in America is in the Huntington Library (complete). BMC V, 334 (IA.22023); BSB-Ink. B-905; GW 5442; H *3931; Pr 4799; Goff B-1178.
Two parts in one volume, 4o (155 x 120 mm). Collation: Part I: π8 (advertisement and calendar, here lacking); χ4 (table of psalms, here lacking); a-l12 m8; n o12 p10; q14; r-x12 y8. Part II: 1-312; 4-812; 914; 10-1512 16 178; A B12 C6 (breviarum gradualis and register, here lacking). 449 leaves (of 496; lacking first two quires [calendar and psalms], the last three quires [breviarum gradualis and register], blanks and three text leaves [3/12, 9/13,14]). 45 lines, double column. Gothic types 1:150 (headings), 2:74 (text), 3:63 (text), 4:63 (text). Printed in red and black. Initials supplied in alternate red and blue. (Long repaired tear on a1 crossing text with some loss of letters, old repair on x10 covering a few lines of text, lower corner renewed on 15/4 with some loss of text, a few marginal repairs, some leaves closely trimmed with letters occasionally shaved or cropped.) Late 16th-century German blind-panelled pigskin over wooden boards, historiated roll borders, dated 1596 on front cover, two brass fore-edge catches. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 19 August 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943.
FIRST EDITION of the Salzburg breviary, commissioned by Bernhard von Rohr, Archbishop of Salzburg. This is one of the first books printed by Nicolaus de Frankfordia after printing in partnership with Renner from 1473 to 1477. RARE: ISTC lists only 8 copies in institutional collections (including the present). Of those, only four are listed as complete and two are merely fragments. The only other copy in America is in the Huntington Library (complete). BMC V, 334 (IA.22023); BSB-Ink. B-905; GW 5442; H *3931; Pr 4799; Goff B-1178.