Ordo breviarii [u]s[u]m [con]suetudinem cathedralis ecclesie madeburgen[sis].

Accession number: 
PML 78151
Published: 
Nuremberg : Georg Stuchs, 20 June 1491.
Description: 
[306] leaves : illus. (woodcut) ; 38 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1981.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a1r): Ordo breviarii [u]s[u]m [con]suetudinem cathedralis ecclesie madeburgen[sis].
Colophon (leaf CC6r): Breviariu[m] q[uam] celeberrimu[m] de tempore et sanctis p[er] anni circulu[m]: iuxta ritu[m] ac more[m] alme ecclesie magdeburgen[sis]. factore Georgio Stuchs de Sulczpach: dilige[n]ti vigila[n]tia eme[n]dat[i]o[n]eq[ue] studiosa adhibitis. in inclito Nurnbergen[sis]. oppido exaratu[m]: anno nostre salutis millesimoquadringe[n]tesimononagesimop[ri]mo. kaldenaru[m] v[er]o julia[rum] .xii. finit feliciter.
Printed in Stuchs's types 7:108aG and 8:108bG.
Collation: (Calendar) [1⁸]; (Psalterium) a-b⁸ c-z⁶ [et]⁸; (Proprium de tempore) aa-dd⁶ ee¹⁰; (Proprium de sanctis) A-B⁸ C-O⁶ P⁸; (Commune sanctorum) AA-CC⁶: 306 leaves, leaves ee10 and P8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Ernst, duke of Saxony, archbishop of Magdeburg.
1 woodcut of archbishop's coat of arms (leaf [1]/1v). Red printing.
Bearer type at bottom edges of Calendar leaves, leaf [1]/8 and blank leaves ee10 and P8.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.2 x 25.2 cm.
PML copy bound with Commune sanctorum before Proprium de sanctis. PML copy wants 1 leaf: [1]/1 with woodcut.

Binding: 
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (37.5 x 26 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Kloster Berge (Magdeburg) workshop (EBDB w002274), active ca. 1479. Vellum manuscript waste for pastedowns and plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps and corner pieces. Leather knot fore edge tabs.
Variant Title: 

Breviarium Magdeburgense (Magdeburg)

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminanted foliate and floral borders with birds (leaves a1r and aa1r); rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Additional quire of manuscript liturgical texts at end. Inscription on front pastedown: "SS. Joan. et Math. non verb. Partis in Natio Di Benedicamus [??] Laudes [??]".

Provenance: 
Unidenified monastic inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); William John Blew (1808-1894); his sale, Sotheby's, 20 June 1895, lot 195, for £8 10s; Robert de Bourbon (1848-1907), Duke of Parma, armorial book plate, no. 514 (front pastedown); his sale, Drouot (Paris), 30 May 1932, lot 99; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, 1981.
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