Breviarium Constantiense.

Accession number:

PML 75573

Published:

[Southern Germany (Constance?)] : [Printer of Remigius (Heinrich Jan?)], about 1475 (not after 17 August 1476)]

Description:

[1008] leaves ; 33 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Proctor located the press first at Augsburg and then at Zürich; BMC (where the press is recorded as the Printer of the Constance service books) suggests Constance; and Amelung (Frühdruck I, p.XVIII) suggests Heinrich Jan as the printer.
Printed in types 1:130R, 2:130R, and 3:109R.
Dated by CIBN. The copy at Konstanz RosgartenM (described in Boh(Parma)) was purchased on 17 Aug. 1476. GW dated not after 1470 on the basis of a rubricator's date in the copy at Freiburg, a date rejected by Sack.
Collation: [I: 1⁶; II: 2¹²; III: 3¹⁰; IV: 4-34¹⁰ 35⁸; V: 36-46¹⁰ 47-48¹²; VI: 49-68¹⁰ 69¹²; VII: 70¹²+1 71-85¹⁰ 86¹² 87-94¹⁰ 95-96¹²; VIII: 97-101¹⁰; IX-X: 102⁶+1]: 1008 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio.
In 9 parts: I. Calendarium, II. Rubrica generalis, III. Ordinarium officii, IV. Proprium de tempore, pars hiemalis, V. Proprium de sanctis, pars hiemalis, VI. Proprium de tempore, pars aestivalis, VII. Proprium de sanctis, pars aestivalis, VIII. Commune sanctorum, IX. Officium dedicationis ecclesiae, X. Registrum partis aestivalis.
1-2 columns, 33 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32 x 23 cm.
PML copy is parts II-IV only. Missing 2 leaves: [2]/1.12.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (34 x 24 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by the Benedictine monastery of Blaubeuren (EBDB w000093/Kyriss 8, active 1472-1538); rebacked and repaired. Plain paper pastedowns; decorative braided endbands. 2 clasps and bosses, missing. Manuscript waste quire guards.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript quire signatures.

Provenance:

Halle (Saale), Germany, Jesuits, inscription: "Societatis Jesu Halæ 1571," (leaf [2]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. on the Fellows Fund, 1978.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books