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Breviarium Romanum (Franciscan usage). Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, 1474.
A fine vellum copy of one of the two earliest Breviaria ever printed. Bibliographers disagree as to whether the present edition has priority over the Turin edition of the same year. Only 1 other vellum copy known, held at the BNF (ISTC). H 3891; Boh(LB) 391; Pell 2920; CIBN B-781; IGI 2112; GW 5125; ISTC ib01117000; Goff B-1117.
Octavo (170 x 120mm). 377 leaves only (of 602: lacks 9 leaves in the Proprium de tempore, 132 in the Proprium de sanctis, and all of Commune sanctorum), printed on vellum in red and black, 10 initials with contemporary French illuminations including 2 with top- and bottom margin illuminated friezes in blue, green, red, pink, yellow and white, other initials in red and blue, most with decorative penwork, capitals stroked in yellow, traces of early quiring in outter bottom corners, first free endpaper reusing an 11th-century manuscript on vellum from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job book 5 (a few flaws in the vellum repaired, occasional light staining, waterstaining in the bottom margin of last two quires touching a few lines, last two leaves browned). ?18th-century blindstamped Italian goatskin, manuscript title label on spine (light wear, head of spine tentatively repaired). Provenance: ?France, ‘Seminaire de ?Nid du Puy’ (stamp on first leaf of calendar).
Collation: 18 (Kalendarium), 2-812, 98, 102 (Psalterium), 11-2212, 2312-4, 24-2512, 2612-4, 27-2812, 298-1 [without final blank], 30-3412 (Proprium de tempore).
A fine vellum copy of one of the two earliest Breviaria ever printed. Bibliographers disagree as to whether the present edition has priority over the Turin edition of the same year. Only 1 other vellum copy known, held at the BNF (ISTC). H 3891; Boh(LB) 391; Pell 2920; CIBN B-781; IGI 2112; GW 5125; ISTC ib01117000; Goff B-1117.
Octavo (170 x 120mm). 377 leaves only (of 602: lacks 9 leaves in the Proprium de tempore, 132 in the Proprium de sanctis, and all of Commune sanctorum), printed on vellum in red and black, 10 initials with contemporary French illuminations including 2 with top- and bottom margin illuminated friezes in blue, green, red, pink, yellow and white, other initials in red and blue, most with decorative penwork, capitals stroked in yellow, traces of early quiring in outter bottom corners, first free endpaper reusing an 11th-century manuscript on vellum from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job book 5 (a few flaws in the vellum repaired, occasional light staining, waterstaining in the bottom margin of last two quires touching a few lines, last two leaves browned). ?18th-century blindstamped Italian goatskin, manuscript title label on spine (light wear, head of spine tentatively repaired). Provenance: ?France, ‘Seminaire de ?Nid du Puy’ (stamp on first leaf of calendar).
Collation: 18 (Kalendarium), 2-812, 98, 102 (Psalterium), 11-2212, 2312-4, 24-2512, 2612-4, 27-2812, 298-1 [without final blank], 30-3412 (Proprium de tempore).
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