Breuiarium canonicorum regularium secu[n]dum ordinarium cap[itu]li de windesim, cu[m] lectionibus longis et no[n] abbreuiatis.

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Accession number:

PML 78480

Published:

Delf : per me Hencricum Eckert de Homberch, Anno domini .M.cccc.xcix. Mensis augusti [August 1499].

Description:

[12, 62, 6, 136, 94 (310 total)] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf QQ4v: Exlicit breuarius s[e]c[un]d[u]m ordinariu[m] regulariu[m] canonicorum cap[itu]li de windecim. dilige[n]tissime et accuratissime correctu[m] cu[m] longiorib[us] lectionibus. et sine q[uam] sepi[us] solet in libris co[n]tigere req[ui]re s[ed] o[mn]ia suis loc[is] inuenienda sunt Per me henricu[m] eckert de ho[m]berch. ad laude[m] [et] honore[m] dei imp[re]ssum. Delf ciuitate hollandie. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.xcix. Me[n]sis augusti.
Printed in Eckert's types 1:150G and 2:97G.
Printed in 5 parts.
Signatures: part I, Kalendarium): [1-2⁶]: 12 leaves, leaves [2]/2-3 signed ":" and ":."; II, Psalterium): a-e⁶ f-h⁴ i-k⁶ l-m⁴: 62 leaves; III, Hymnarius): A⁶: 6 leaves; IV, Proprium de tempore and Proprium de sanctis, pars aestivalis): ²A B-X⁶ Y¹⁰: 136 leaves; V, Proprium de tempore and Proprium de sanctis, pars hiemalis): AA-PP⁶ QQ⁴: 94 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
PML copy bound parts I, V, II, III, IV.
PML copy with significant moisture damage causing many edges to fray or tear, significant damage to rear leaves, including loss of text.

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 3 supports, probably bound near Münster, with tools similar to those assigned to the IHS II workshop, also known as Zu Münster Ihs II (EBDB w001463, also located to Braunschweig); heavily damaged. Plain vellum pastedowns and paper endleaves; braided endbands (lower missing). 2 clasps, missing.

Variant Title:

Breviarium Windeshemense

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, with penwork decoration on major initials, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Sieterburg(?), inscription, 16th century (14 March [15]72): "Aus Sieterburgk den 14 Martii Anno 72, Ein komme[n]" (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified early German (or Dutch?) inscriptions (leaf [1]/1r); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (d. ca. 1960?), of Achstetten; his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 192; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind stamped bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books