Erford qui celsas arces suauissime flamen incolis: [et] quisq[ui]s in sua iura ruis : Hos lege preclaros eterno pneumate cantus belligeri dauidis: vel pia verba patru[m]. Que nunc etherea calles monstrante minerua multifide lime pressimus ere nouo.

Accession number: 
PML 39667
Published: 
Impressum Nurmberge : P[er] Caspar Hochfeder, Anno .M.cccc.xcvij. [1497].
Description: 
[235] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 35.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1948.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf H6r: Impressum nurmberge p[er] Caspar hochfeder. Anno .M.cccc.xcvij.
Printed in Hochfeder's types 5:168G, 8:107G, and 11:107G.
Signatures: [1]⁶; a-c⁶ d⁸; e¹⁰(8+1: "quarta inuitat[ur]"); ²a-i⁶ k⁸; i-o⁶ p⁸ q-z⁶; A-B⁶ C⁸ D-H⁶: 235 leaves. Leaf e8+1 is a cut-down sheet of Royal folio, inserted perpindicular (horizontal chainlines).
Paper format: Median folio.
Incipits, captions, headings, and colophon printed in red.
Full page woodcut illustration of Virgin and Child between Sts. Adelar and Eohan, leaf [1]/1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 34 x 24 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century Northern German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (35.5 x 25.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by an unidentified bindery. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges. Fore edge knotted tabs. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant Title: 

Title in ISTC: Breviarium Erfordense (Chapter of St. Mary's in Erfurt)

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Early rubrication (where required), possible later additions, red initials. Annotations: Extensive early/16th-century marginal notations throughout, including additions and changes to calendar (some dated 1553-54), headlines, irregular foliation, biblical citations, textual corrections and additions; extensive theological notes (front pastedown), and textual contents (leaf [1]/1r). A list of confirmations dated 1554-56, including "Henricus Seidel ... Georg Küch filius Archimagici ... Marx Schneider ...," and list of proverbs: "Mortis vel vite, vox est brevis ite, venite. / Aspera vox ite, vox est benedicta venite. / Aspera cuncta tibi si vis ad aetera scribi. / Mors tua mors Christi, fraus mundi gloria celi. / Et dolor infermi sunt medicanda tibi" (leaf [1]/1v). 3 leaves of additional texts and notes with list of psalms to read for certain celebrations, 16th century, laid-in (leaf E2r).

Provenance: 
Valentin Schlotheuber, donation inscription to Erfurt Jesuits: "Ex liberali donatione R.D. Valentini Schlotheuber Collegij Societatis Jesu Erffurti, 1662" (front endleaf 1 verso; same inscription in copy at Huntington Library); Otto Ranschburg, unidentified cat., no. 26; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Ranschburg, Feb. 1948.
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