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Breviarium Spirense.

Accession number
PML 30614
Object title

Breviarium Spirense.

Published

[Strasbourg] : [Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], [after 10 February 1491]

Description

[8], I-XCIIII [2], [8], I-CCCXIX [1] leaves ; 12.5 cm (12mo)

Credit line
Purchased in 1934.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Grüninger's type 4:52G. Asigned to Drach at Speyer in BMC.
Signatures: I) Calendarium: [1⁸]: 8 leaves, leaf [1]/8 blank; II) Psalterium and commune sanctorum: aa-mm⁸: 96 leaves, leaves mm7-8 blank; III) Rubrica adventus: [2⁸]: 8 leaves (signed 1-4), leaf 8 blank; IV) Propium de tempore and de sanctis: a-k⁸ l⁶ m-z A-Q⁸ R¹⁰: 320 leaves, leaf R10 blank.
Paper format: Median duodecimo.
ISTC and GW cite as an octavo, but chainlines run horizontally (perpendicular to gutter).
Printed in black and red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12 x 8.5 cm.
PML copy with part III, Rubrica adventus, bound after Calendarium.
Binding
19th-century blind-tooled calf over paper boards (12.5 x 9.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; green edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript headlines in Commune sanctorum and a few marginal notations sporadically throughout.
Provenance
Charles Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Parma (1799-1883), bookplate of Bibliotheque Liturgique, no. 228 (front pastedown), collection inherited by grandson: Robert I, Duke of Parma (d. 1907); his sale Paris, 30 May 1932, lot 250; unidentified octagonal label, no. 279 (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Orioli & Davis, July 1934.
Classification
Century
Department