Accession number
PML 45332/78070
Object title
Breviarium Romanum (Franciscan usage).
Published
Impressu[m] venetiis : p[er] pet[rum] d[e] piasiis d[e] cr[e]mona [et] bartholomeu[m] de blavis de alexandria, M° cccc. lxxviiij die .xviii. ap[ri]lis [18 April 1479].
Description
[420] leaves ; 14 cm. (16mo)
Credit line
PML 45332 purchased in 1953.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf cc12r: Co[m]pe[n]diu[m] breviarii s[ecundum] ritu[m] romane curie. Impressu[m] venetiis p[er] pet[rum] d[e] piasiis d[e] cr[e]mona [et] bartholomeu[m] de blavis de alexandria. M° cccc. lxxviiij die .xviii. ap[ri]lis.
Printed in Piasi's type 1:160G.
Signatures, in 5 parts: I) [1]⁸: 8 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; II) AA-EE¹² FF⁸: 68 leaves; III) A-O¹² P⁸: 176 leaves; IV) a-i¹² k-m⁸: 132 leaves; V) aa-cc¹²: 36 leaves.
Paper format: about Chancery 16mo, but all known copies on vellum.
The format is recorded as 16° by GW and Goff, as 8° by BMC and CIBN.
2 columns, 33 lines. Capital spaces, some initials printed in red.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.4 x 9.2 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf cc12r: Co[m]pe[n]diu[m] breviarii s[ecundum] ritu[m] romane curie. Impressu[m] venetiis p[er] pet[rum] d[e] piasiis d[e] cr[e]mona [et] bartholomeu[m] de blavis de alexandria. M° cccc. lxxviiij die .xviii. ap[ri]lis.
Printed in Piasi's type 1:160G.
Signatures, in 5 parts: I) [1]⁸: 8 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; II) AA-EE¹² FF⁸: 68 leaves; III) A-O¹² P⁸: 176 leaves; IV) a-i¹² k-m⁸: 132 leaves; V) aa-cc¹²: 36 leaves.
Paper format: about Chancery 16mo, but all known copies on vellum.
The format is recorded as 16° by GW and Goff, as 8° by BMC and CIBN.
2 columns, 33 lines. Capital spaces, some initials printed in red.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.4 x 9.2 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (14.5 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary northern Italian (Verona/Ferrara?) illumination in both volumes, initials and floral border with abraded armorial (leaf AA1r), illuminated initials (leaves A1r, a1r, and aa1r), minor blue initials added by hand. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Arithmetic inscriptions, 17th(?) century (leaf front fly leaf of vol. 1).
Provenance
[Both volumes were together until at least 1895, separated by 1957] Unidentified armorial, abraded (leaf AA1r); inscription, abraded with monogram cipher: Fr. M.A.B., 16th/17th century (front fly leaf verso of vol. 1); Chandos Leigh, 1st baron Leigh of Stoneleigh (1791-1850), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), inherited by son: William Henry Leigh, 2nd baron (1824-1905); his sale Puttick & Simpson, 14 Dec. 1886; William John Blew (1808-1894); his sale, Sotheby's, 20 June 1895, lot 241 to Robson & Co. for £28.10; unidentified owners'/booksellers' price codes in pencil (fly leaves both volumes) [volumes separated]: PML 45332 (parts I-III): Parke-Bernet, 16 Dec. 1957; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased Parke-Bernet via Laurence Witten, 1957; PML 78070 (part IV-V): Charles Evan Nunn, armorial bookplate with motto: "Fortis esto non ferox" (front fly leaf verso); Ulco Proost (1914-1966), bookplate, no. 1871 (front fly leaf); his sale, Beijers (Utrecht), 7 Nov. 1967, lot 1324 for fl.900; Pierpont Morgan Library, acquired by exchange with Laurence Witten, 1984. .
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