| Record ID | cp012051 |
| Voet reference number | 803 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Uniform title | BREVIARIUM |
| Title page transcription | [Within woodcut-compartment:] † BREVIARIVM □ ROMANVM EX ‖ SACRA POTISSI- ‖ mum scriptura, & probatis Sanctorum ‖ historijs confectum, ac denuò ‖ recognitum. ‖ Cum argumentis in psalmos, Indice ad ‖ Epistolas & Euangelia, quæ in Missa le- ‖ guntur inuenienda, septem Psalmis, & ‖ officio mortuorum. ‖ ⊕ 8 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex Officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ 1561. |
| Collation | 16mo [94]: *⁸, [**]⁸, A-F⁸, a-z⁸, aa-xx⁸, zz⁸; folios [1-16], 1-402 (= for 404), [405-408] (Errors: 31 for 23, 126 for 129, 162 for 192, 141 for 241, 223 for 293, 322 for 332, 400-409-410-411-402). Printed in black and red, and on two columns, with the exception of [1v-13r] (on one column) |
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| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Prudentiss…viro D. Gabrieli Sayae Christophorus Plantinus S.D. (Antwerp, 7 November 1561; italic type) [2r-4v]: Ad…Paulum tertium Pontificem Maximum, Francisci Quignonii tit. signed by Crucis in Ierusalem presbyteri cardinalis, in breviarium proxime confectum, ac denuo recognitum praefatio [5r-13r]: Calendar [13r-14r]: Index [14r-16v]: Regulae generales ad instructionem divini officii [16v]: Index invitatoriorum et hymnorum 1r-338r: Text (parts in italic type) 338v-390v: Sanctorum historiae…summatim excerptae 390v-394v: Commune Sanctorum 394v-397r: Officium Beatae Virginis Mariae 397r-400v: Orationes 400v-402r: (= for 404r): Officium defunctorum 402r (= for 404r): Index chartharum 402v (= for 404v)-[408v]: Index [408v]: ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS, XX. NOVEMB. ‖ M.D. LX |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcut: 1 illustration, 65 × 43 (Annunciation, with the monogram of the woodcutter Arnold Nicolaï), on folio 48v |
| Copies | Bibliothèque nationale de France- Res. B. 3622British Library London- C. 52. a 19University Library GrazKB National Library of the Netherlands |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 30 (1561, no. 14) Bohatta, no. 243 Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 2742 |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | Second edition by Plantin of the Quignonez-breviary. |
| Note 2 | In the colophon is stated that the work was finished on 20 November 1560. A copy, however, was already sold on 11 November 1560 (Arch. 35, folio 116r). |
| Note 3 | The larger part of the edition was sold to Paris booksellers: Lucas Brayer took 50 copies on 8 December 1560 (Arch. 35, folio 117r), and again 200 copies on 7 April 1561 (Arch. 36, folio 3); 975 copies were sent to Guillaume Merlin on 22 March 1561 (Arch. 36, folio 3; cf. Arch. 35, folio 118r, sub 11 March 1561). In the same barrel were packed 25 other breviaries 'pour parfaire le mille' for Martin le Jeune. This Paris bookseller had already had 12 copies on 8 December 1560 (Arch. 35, folio 117r). The price per copy was 10 stuivers |
| Note 4 | Not listed in M 164 and 296. |
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