Incipit rationale diuinoru[m] officiorum.

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Accession number:

PML 26056

Author:

Durand, Guillaume, approximately 1230-1296.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)], [about 1470]

Description:

[227] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1928.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit rationale diuinoru[m] officiorum.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the R-Printer's type 1:103R.
On the date, see Collijn, BSB-Ink and V. Scholderer in The Library, 4th ser., 20 (1939-40) pp.43-50, reprinted in Fifty Essays (Amsterdam, 1966) pp.150-55. On the MS date, previously read as 1464, in the Basel copy, see E. von Rath, in Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde N.F. 2 (1938) pp. 130-1.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸; 5-7¹⁰ 8⁸; 9-11¹⁰ 12⁸; 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸(7+1: Hec ergo magna); 17-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-22¹⁰]: 227 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.4 x 29.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank). Leaf [22]/10 is partially trimmed away.

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (42.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 6 supports by the Benedictine monastery of Liesborn (Liesborn Benediktinerkloster, EBDB w000151, active 1469-1516). Vellum music manuscript pastedowns, with renewed paper front endleaf; sprinkled edges. 2 clasps and metal corner pieces, chain hasp attached to rear board; 5 bosses missing from each board

Variant Title:

Rationale divinorum officiorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine (Liesborn) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks and underlining; primary initials in red and blue with extensive penwork decoration. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text, primarily note bene marks. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed.

Provenance:

Liesborn (North Rhine-Westphalia), Benedictines, contemporary rubrication(?) and binding, and later inscription: "Liber monasterii Liesbornensis Sanctorum Mart. Cosme et Damiani. Columna I Commentatorum Classe S Num. 3," 18th century (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified German library stamp, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Jacques Rosenthal, Nov. 1928.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books