| Record ID | cp012222 |
| Voet reference number | 1776 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Uniform title | OFFICIUM BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS |
| Title page transcription | OFFICIVM ‖ B. MARIÆ ‖ VIRGINIS, ‖ Nuper reformatum, ‖ ET ‖ PII. V. PONT. MAX. IVSSV EDITVM. ‖ Vignette ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXXV. ‖ Cum Priuilegio, & Indulgentiis. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [158]: A-Z⁸, Aa⁸, Bb⁴, A-D⁸, E⁴; pages 1-388, [389-392], 1-70, [71-72]. Printed in black and red |
| Fingerprint | |
| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-6: Bull of Pius V on the reformation of the Officium (Rome, 11 March 1570; part in italic type) 7: Privilege (Rome, 13 March 1572; italic type, part in roman type) 8-[21]: Calendar 22-27: Institutio christiana [28]: illustration 29-206: Officium B. Mariae Virginis 207-239: Psalmi et Litaniae 241-254: Officium signed by Crucis et S. Spiritus 255-264: Exercitium quotidianum 265-307: Orationes 309-355: Passionis Evangelia 357-385: Antiphonae, vers. et orationes praecipuarum totius anni festivitatum preces 385-388: Itinerarium [389-390]: Table (italic type) [391]: illustration [392]: Blank 1-14: Hymni per totum annum (on two columns) 15-70: Orationes doninicales (= sic), et feriales, cum suis antiphonis et versiculis per annum (on two columns) [71]: ANTVERPIÆ ‖ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS PLANTINVS ‖ ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ANNO ‖ DOMINI M.D.LXXV [72]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) Vignette on title-page (circular: diam. 83) with bust of the Blessed Virgin 2) 18 full-page illustrations, c. 170 × 115, representing the Evangelists and scenes from the New Testament, with the monograms of the designers, Pieter van der Borcht (PB, PVDB) and Crispin van den Broeck (Crispine), and some with the monograms of the engravers, Joannes Wiericx (IHW), Abraham de Bruyn (ADB) and Jan Sadeler (IS): 1 (page [28]: PVDB), 2 (page [53]: Crispine; ADB), 3 (page [71]: PVDB), 4 (page [77]: PVDB; IHW), 5 (page [83]: PVDB; IHW), 6 (page [89]: PVDB; IHW), 7 (page [95]: PVDB; IHW), 8 (page [106]: PB; IS), 9 (page [147]: PVDB), 10 (page [213]: PVDB), 11 (page [240]: PB; IHW), 12 (page [248]: -), 13 (page [308]: PVDB), 14 (page [322]: PVDB), 15 (page [334]: PVDB), 16 (page [346]: PVDB), 17 (page [356]: PVDB), 18 (page [389]: PB) |
| Copies | British Library London - C. 66. c. 16Bibliothèque de l’ArsenalCollection of Eric Speeckaert, Brussels, as of July 1993 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 156 (1575, no. 3) Lacombe, no. 590 |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | See cp012137 |
| Note 2 | Karen Lee Bowen differentiates two variants of this Officium. Variant A contains engraved illustrations and corresponds with the British Library copy that Voet describes. Variant B, however, contains woodcut illustrations. The copy in the Speeckaert collection of an example of the woodcut illustrations containing variant. For an extensive bibliographical description of variant B see Bowen, Books of Hours, 244. |
| Note 3 | Bowen states that Voet’s identification of the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal’s Officium as another copy of this edition is incorrect. She identifies this as a variant of the 12° book of hours that Voet describes in cp012501. (Bowen, Books of Hours, 244) |
| Note 4 | According to Bowen, Voet’s listing of the contents of this Officium does contain the following few oversights: (1) the “Institutio christiana” is just on pages 22-26, while the “Initium sancti evangelium Ioannem” is on pages 26-27; (2) the “Officium B. Mariae Virginis” is just on pages 29-146; (3) there is an illustration on page [147]; (4) the “Officium defunctorum” is on pages 148-206; and (5) there are illustrations on pages [308] and [356]. Furthermore, Bowen states that upon her examination of the London copy, she was often unable to find all of the initials noted by Voet for the illustrations. Specifically, she notes the following, all contrary to what is noted in Voet’s list of illustrations of this copy: page [28] no initials seen; page [71] no initials seen; page [77] only “IHW” initials seen; page [83] only “IHW” initials seen, page [89] only “IHW” initials seen; page [95] only “IHW” initials seen; page [147] only “IHW” initials seen; page [213] no initials seen; page [308] no initials seen; page [322] no initials seen; page [334] no initials seen; page [346] no initials seen; page [356] no initials seen. (Bowen, Books of Hours, 244) |
| Note 5 | Karen Lee Bowen states that both variants were set and printed between September and November 1574. She refers to Arch. 32, folio 134 recto for the payments for the setting of this Officium and to Arch. 32, folios 133 recto and opening 158 left for the printing. Finally, for the printing of the engraved illustrations for at least part of this edition she refers to a payment made to Mynken Liefrinck between October 1574 and July 1575 for engravings printed for the “grooten horas” [large book of hours] in Arch. 18, opening 82 right. (Bowen, Books of Hours, 245) |
| Further reading | Bowen, Karen Lee. Christopher Plantin’s Books of Hours: Illustration and Production. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf Publishers, 1997. |
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