Breviarium Romanum ex sacra potissimum scriptura : & probatis sanctoru[m] historiis nuper confectum, ac denuo per eundem authorem accuratius recognitum, eaq[ue] diligentia hoc in anno a mendis ita purgatum, ut Momi iudicium non pertimescat ...

Accession number: 
PML 4073
Published: 
[Lyons : Thibaud Payen], 1546.
Description: 
[18], 36, 255, [1] (=310) leaves : ill. (woodcuts)
Notes: 

Almanach for 1544-1573.
Cf. RELICS 460. According to Bohatta, the two books are numbered and collate identically, but RELICS 460 is in folio.
Colophon (leaf iiD7v): Lugduni, APVD THEOBALDVM PAGANVM. M.D.XLVI.
Edited by Francesco de Quignones.
Imprint date in roman numerals.
Printed in red and black.
See Alès, Bib. liturgique, no. 156.
The first in this series was commissioned by Pope Clement VII and published in 1535, and was, with corrections, republished with the approval of popes Paul III, Julius III and Paul IV. The series was stopped by Pope Pius V in 1588.
With calendar.
Without music.
Woodcut on title page, small woodcut illustrations, historiated initials. Roman type in two columns.

Binding: 
Olive morocco, tooled and gilt. Attributed to the Pecking Crow Binder.
Provenance: 
Toovey collection.
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