Accession number
PML 27573
Published
Extra muros oppidi Scoenhoviensis partis Hollandie : apud Canonicos Regulares inden Hem, Anno saluti[s] M° ccccc° vii° in profesto sancte Marie Magdalene [21 July 1507].
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from leaf a1r, with woodcut of St. Augustine of Hippo.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ll6v: Anno saluti[s] M° ccccc° vii° in p[ro]festo s[an]c[t]e marie magdalene. extra muros oppidi Scoe[n]hovien[sis] p[ar]tis holla[n]die ap[u]d Cano[n]icos regulares Inden hem.
The majority of the text is the same printing as the Windesheim breviary of 23 June, with some reset quires marked S for Syon textual use.
Quires signed S for use for Syon: a-b (calendar), e, i-k, ï, ., ee., hh.-ii., and kk-ll; part of litany in quire H reset.
Signatures: a-b⁸; c-i⁸ k¹⁰ l-n⁸; ï⁶; .a-.c⁸; A-H⁸ I⁴ .¹⁰; M-N⁸ O⁴; a.-k.⁸; aa.-ii.⁸ kk-ll⁶: 398 leaves. Signed to the sheet, typically on first and third leaves of quires.
PML copy with quire B bound before A. Many leaves with older marginal repairs to paper, not affecting text.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ll6v: Anno saluti[s] M° ccccc° vii° in p[ro]festo s[an]c[t]e marie magdalene. extra muros oppidi Scoe[n]hovien[sis] p[ar]tis holla[n]die ap[u]d Cano[n]icos regulares Inden hem.
The majority of the text is the same printing as the Windesheim breviary of 23 June, with some reset quires marked S for Syon textual use.
Quires signed S for use for Syon: a-b (calendar), e, i-k, ï, ., ee., hh.-ii., and kk-ll; part of litany in quire H reset.
Signatures: a-b⁸; c-i⁸ k¹⁰ l-n⁸; ï⁶; .a-.c⁸; A-H⁸ I⁴ .¹⁰; M-N⁸ O⁴; a.-k.⁸; aa.-ii.⁸ kk-ll⁶: 398 leaves. Signed to the sheet, typically on first and third leaves of quires.
PML copy with quire B bound before A. Many leaves with older marginal repairs to paper, not affecting text.
Description
[398] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary Dutch painted red and blue initials with filigree foliate decoration, minor red and blue initials, paragraph marks, and red capital strokes. Minimal contempoary reader's marks (marginal alphabetic textual divisions) and numeration of Psalms. Late 16th-/17th-century prayer added to end of calendar, "Ante preces horarias. Bone Iesu Ego humliter...," leaf b8v.
Provenance
Unidientified monastic inscription: "monialiumne regularissarum," (leaf a1r, within printed title), perhaps Kortrijk (Belgium) convent of Syon (see inscription "Pertinet monasterio Regularissarum de Syon in Curtraco" in HEHL 102899, Goff C-475); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Nijhoff, July 1930.
Binding
Contemporary Dutch blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with metal bosess; rebacked. 2 clasps, missing.
Classification
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