A. Version with copper engraving-illustrations. No copy known B. Version with woodcut-illustrations.
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| Record ID | cp013080 |
| Voet reference number | 833 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Uniform title | BREVIARIUM |
| Title page transcription | BREVIARIVM ‖ ROMANVM, ‖ Ex decreto sacrosancti concilij ‖ Tridentini restitutum. ‖ PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ iussu editum. ‖ Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex præcepto ‖ S.D.N. Sixti Papæ Quinti. ‖ Pars Hiemalis. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXVIII. ‖ Cum Priuilegiis Pont. Max. & Regis Catholici. |
| Collation | 8⁰ (c. 180 × c. 120 [144]): A⁸, **-****⁸ A-Z⁸, a-z⁸, AA-EE⁸, a-m⁸, n⁴; pages [1-56], 1-811, [812], 1-200 (Errors: not checked). Printed in black and red |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-6]: Pius episcopus…ad perpetuam rei memoriam (Rome, 9 July 1568, signed by Cae. Glorierius and H. Cumyn) [7]: Privilege (Rome, 22 November 1568, s. Cae. Glorierius; Brussels, Privy Council, 10 January 1568, and Council of Brabant, 11 January 1568, s. De Langhe) [8-25]: Calendar [26-52]: Rubricae generales [53-55]: Absolutiones et Suffragia [56]: illustration 1-811: Text [812]: Blank 1-200: Text |
| Illustrations | Woodcuts: 1) V. on title-page, 27 × 39 (St. Petrus and St. Paulus) 2) 5 illustrations, 110 × 75, all with the monograms of the designer, Pieter van der Borcht, and the woodcutter, Antoon van Leest, and printed within a frame of typographical fleurons; in 1st part, page [56], 2nd part, pages 152, 208, 519, 643 |
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| Title page transcription | BREVIARIVM ROMANVM, ‖ Ex decreto sacrosancti Concilij ‖ Tridentini restitutum. ‖ PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ iussu editum. ‖ Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex præcepto ‖ S.D.N. Sixti Papæ quinti. ‖ Pars Æstivalis. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXVIII. ‖ Cum Priuilegiis Pont. Max. & Regis Catholici. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [144]: A⁸, **-***⁸, ****⁴, A-Z⁸, Aa-Zz⁸, a-m⁸, n⁴; pages [1-56], 1-728, 1-200 (Errors: not checked). Printed in black and red, on two columns, with the exception of pages [3-9], [14-25], [50-52] (on one column) |
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| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-6]: Pius episcopus…ad perpetuam rei memoriam (Rome, 9 July 1568, signed by Cae. Glorierius and H. Cumyn) [7]: Privilege (Rome, 22 November 1568, s. Cae. Glorierius; Brussels, Privy Council, 10 January 1568, and Council of Brabant, 11 January 1568, s. De Langhe) [8-25]: Calendar [26-52]: Rubricae generales [53-55]: Absolutiones et Suffragia [56]: illustration 1-727: Text 728: Index 1-124: Commune Sanctorum 125-160: Officium Beatae Mariae 160-178: Officium defunctorum 178-182: Psalmi graduales 182-200: Septem psalmi paenitentiales cum litaniis and other prayers |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcuts: 1) V. on title-page, 27 × 39 (St. Petrus and St. Paulus) 2) 5 illustrations, 110 × 75, all with the monograms of the designer, Pieter van der Borcht, and the woodcutter, Antoon van Leest, and printed within a border of typographical fleurons, in 1st part, page [56], 2nd part, pages 152, 168, 582, 673 |
| Copies | Royal Danish Library- only Pars Hiemalis; description after the data given by Mr. P.R. Jørgensen, curator of incunabulaMunicipal Library Nuremberg- only Pars Aestivalis; description after the data given by Dr. P. Zahn, director |
| Bibliographical references | Bohatta, no. 355 (doesn't distinguish between the edition in 2 vols. and the in 8⁰ of 1588 in one volume) |
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| Note 1 | Of the edition two versions were issued: one with woodcut-illustrations (as described here) and one with copper engraving-illustrations (no copy known) |
| Note 2 | In a letter of 19 December 1587 Plantin tells his correspondent that he had printed shortly before a 'Breviarium cum eisdem officiis in 8⁰ duobus tomis' (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1332). |
| Note 3 | An in 8⁰ edition in two volumes dated 1587 is listed in M 296, folio 2r (Brev[iarium] Rom. 8⁰, 1587, 2 voll., pars Aest[ivalis] [feuilles] 61½, pars Hyem[alis] f[euilles] 66¾, f[euilles] 128¼, [price for the copies with woodcut-illustrations:] florins Carolus guilders 3, et a fig[ures] de cuivre [= price for the copies with copper engravings:] florins Carolus guilders 4), and M 321. It may be assumed that this in 8⁰ edition of '1587' in 2 volumes is identical to the edition described here, showing on the title-page the year 1588. |
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