A. Version with copper engraving-illustrations. No copy known B. Version with woodcut-illustrations.
| Record ID | cp010270 |
| Voet reference number | 824 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3249136 |
| Uniform title | BREVIARIUM |
| Title page transcription | [Within double rules:] BREVIARIVM ‖ ROMANVM, ‖ Ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilij ‖ Tridentini restitutum, ‖ PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ iussu editum. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXVII. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ ET ‖ PHILIPPI REGIS CATHOLICI. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [143]: *-****⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Zz⁸, AA-OO⁸, PP⁴, a-i⁸; pages [1-64], 1-966, [967-968], 1-143, [144] (Errors: in 2nd part: 778 for 178, 312 not numbered, 583 for 683, 821 for 823; in 3rd part: 57 for 75). Printed in black and red, on two columns separated by double rules, with the exception of pages [1-6], [10-25], [54-56] (on one column) |
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| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table of the Addita [3-6]: Pius episcopus…ad perpetuam rei memoriam (Rome, 9 July 1568, signed by Cae. Glorierius and H. Cumyn) [6]: Privilege (Rome, 22 November 1568, s. Cae. Glorierius; Brussels, Privy Council, 10 January 1568, and Council of Brabant, 11 January 1568, s. De langhe) [7-25]: Calendar [26-56]: Rubricae generales [57-59]: Absolutiones et Suffragia [60-63]: Indices (italic type) [64]: illustration [1] -966: Text (parts in italic type) [967-968]: Blank [1] -88: Commune Sanctorum (parts in italic type) 89-113: Officium Beatae Mariae (parts in italic type) 113-126: Officium defunctorum 126-130: Psalmi graduales 130-143: Septem psalmi paenitentiales cum litaniis and other prayers [144]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Variants | A. On title-page:…PII. V. PONT. MAX. (Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 1256). B. On title-page:…PII. V. POT. MAX. (Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 1227). |
| Illustrations | Woodcuts: 1) V. on title-page, 55 × 55 (St. Petrus and St. Paulus, with the monogram of the designer Pieter van der Borcht) 2) 8 illustrations, 110 × 75, all with the monograms of the designer P. van der Borcht and the woodcutter Antoon van Leest: 1st part, page [64], 2nd part, pages 108, [148], [366], [455], [480], 864, 928; printed, with the exception of illustration on page 108, within a frame of typographical fleurons |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus (A 1256 [variant A]: copy with handwritten indications in view of a later edition; A 1227 [variant B]: with some handwritten corrections and indications, and, on a sheet bound with the copy, the manuscript note: 'Exemplar correctum in locis veterum ab illo qui prima loca illa invenerat et adiecerat. Addita sunt et[iam] quaedam loca in prioribus editionibus omissa' |
| Bibliographical references | Bohatta, no. 313 Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
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| Note 1 | Of this edition two versions were issued: one with copper engraving-illustrations (no copy known) and one with woodcut-illustrations. |
| Note 2 | Edition 'ad longum'. |
| Note 3 | Plantin in a letter of 4 January 1576 to de Virbiesca notes casually that he was printing a breviary in 8⁰ (Corr., V, no. 690). Some months later he thanks the same de Virbiesca for his advice regarding the in 8⁰ breviary, which the typographer guesses will also sell very well in the Netherlands (letter of 19 April 1576: Corr., V, no. 712). This means that if primarily intended for Spain the breviary could also be brought on the market in the Netherlands. In the first days of June 1576 Plantin hoped to finish the work before the end of the month and declared to be very satisfied with the presentation of the work (letter to Buyssetius, 2 June 1576 [Corr., V, no. 724]: 'Interea namque praeterquam quod valde timeo supra dicta non audeo progredi in editionibus inchoatis ex quibus alioqui sperarem me tibi ante mensem missurum Breviarium in 8⁰ elegantius et commodius (ni fallor) impressum quam quidquam ejus generis quod hactenus ex nostra prodierit officina…'). Very likely the political troubles did postpone the printing of the last quires and the edition was only completed at the end of 1576 or the beginning of 1577. No copies were shipped to Spain. |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 2r (Breviarium Rom., 8⁰, ad longum, 1577, f[euilles] 73½, [price for the edition with woodcut-illustrations:] stuivers 30. Idem cum figuris aeneis regié [price for the edition with copper engraving-illustrations:] florins Carolus guilders 2). |
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