Breviarium de camera secundu[m] usum predicatorum.

Accession number:

PML 474

Published:

Venetiaru[m] urbe : Andrea[m] de torresanis de asula, Anno salutifere i[n]carnatio[n]is .M.ccccxciiii. die p[ri]ma martii [1 March 1494].

Description:

[6], .i.-.ccxii., .cci.-.ccccii., .cccciii.-ccccxlvi. (with mistakes) ; 32 x 22 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [cross]/1r.
Colophon, in red (leaf d14v): Explicit Breviariu[m] de camera s[ecundu]m usum sacratissimi ordinis fratru[m] p[re]dicato[rum]. ... In alma venetiaru[m] urbe ad istar exe[m]plaris correctissimi Per optimu[m] viru[m] Andrea[m] de torresanis de asula studiosissime imp[re]ssu[m] Anno salutifere i[n]carnatio[n]is .M.ccccxciiii. die p[ri]ma martii. ... [printer's mark, in red].
Printed in types 9*:92G, 11:180G, and 14:102G mixed with 14:*102G.
Collation: [cross]⁶; A¹⁰BC¹²D-U¹⁰X⁸; AA-TT¹⁰UU¹²; a-c¹⁰d¹⁴: 466 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Incipits, parts of calendar, headlines, some initials, rubrics, and colophon printed in red.
Spaces left for some initials to be added by hand.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.1 cm.

Binding:

16th-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by H.I.S. of South Germany (Augsburg?). Central panel depicting Adoration, "Puer natus est...," signed ".H.I.S." with Baptism panel on rear board (see Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel, I, 206, nos. III and IV). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; green edges. 2 clasps, 1 missing.

Variant Title:

Breviarium Fratrum Praedicatorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, where required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Additional quires of manuscript prayers bound in at end.

Provenance:

James Toovey (1814-1893); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Blind stamped bindings (Binding)

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books