Breuiarium camere ad vsum ecclesie Lugdunensis.

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Accession number: 
PML 1017
Published: 
[Lyon] : Janonus Carcani, die quinta me[n]sis marcii. Anno d[omi]ni millesimo quaterce[n]tesimo nonagesimo octavo [5 March 1498/99].
Description: 
[8], i-cccxvii, [33] (with mistakes) leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 34 cm (fol.)
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
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Title from half-title page, printed in red, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf MM7r: ... Circa p[rae]missa laboravim[us] in modu[m] [et] forma[m] p[rae]sentib[us]. Qua[m] eisde[m] de causis. etia[m] charitative i[m]pressit. peregit. [et] feliciter finivit Janonus carcani librarius lugduni. Die quinta me[n]sis marcii. Anno d[omi]ni millesimo quaterce[n]tesimo nonagesimo octavo. Deo gratias.
Printer's mark, printed in red, leaf dd8r, below quire register.
Printed in Carcain's types 3:107G, 4:107G, and 11:260G.
Signatures: [1]⁸ (calendarium); a-f⁸ g-h⁶ (Psalterium, Commune sanctorum); A-V⁸ (Proprium de tempore); AA-MM⁸ (Proprium de sanctis); aa-dd⁸ (rubrica generalis): 356 leaves, leaf MM8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Printed in black and red, major woodcut initials, minor initials printed in red.
Edited by Sebastian Reneri (completed by Rolandus Devaulx, Petrus Godemard, Johannes Bas and Johannes Chaney, after Reneri's death).
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.3 x 24 cm, trimmed.

Binding: 
16th-century Lyon gilt- and blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (34 x 25 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges. 2 clasps, hinges repaired; clasps attached to front board.
Variant Title: 

Breviarium Lugdunense (Lyon)

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Hand decoration: Painted foliate border including hybrid creatures and armorial (unidentified): gold rampant lion on red and blue ground with gold sawtooth border (leaf a1r). Annotations: 16th/17th-century inscriptions throughout: additional saints and feast information added to calendar, textual corrections and additional texts, some quite extensive.

Provenance: 
Hughes de Gabiano (probably Gabiano family of booksellers in Lyon), inscription, 28 Nov. 1590: "L'an mil cinq cens quatre-vingt et deux et le vingt-huictiesme jour du moys de novembre, à unze heures et ung quart d'eure du soir, est allé de vie à trespas, noble homme Mons. Hugues de Gabiano, conseiller du Roy, ès cours et siège présidial de la seneschaussée de Lyon" (front endleaf 1 recto), the volume then passed to an individual named Danger, master of the chapel, who sold it on 26 September 1655, to Phily, canon of Saint-Just, of Lyon, "Hoc breviarium ad usum Clericorum Lugdunensium in camera, emi a Domino Danger, musices magistro, die 26a 7bris anno 1655. Phily" (front pastedown); from Phily it passed to: Deschamps, "Hoc breviarium habui [now abraded] a Domino Phily, canonico Sancti Justi et correario nostro die 6a 9bris anno 1656. Deschamps" (front pastedown) and signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Jean François Armand Riolz (1742-1815), his sale, Lyon, 4 March 1816, lot 130; unidentified shelf mark (Lyon, Jesuits or Riolz?): Yd. 10 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Aug. 1906.
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