A. Version with woodcut-illustrations.
| Record ID | cp013379 |
| Voet reference number | 822 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3248114 |
| Uniform title | BREVIARIUM |
| Title page transcription | [Within double rules:] BREVIARIVM ‖ ROMANVM, ‖ Ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilij ‖ Tridentini restitutum, ‖ PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ iussu editum. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex offïcina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXV. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ ET ‖ PHILIPPI REGIS CATHOLICI. |
| Collation | Folio (380 × 240 [307; 325 from upper rule to under rule]): *⁶, A⁶, [**6], ***⁸, ****⁴, A-Z⁸, Aa-Zz⁸, AA-SS⁸, TT-VV⁶, a-i⁸, k⁶, X⁸; pages [1-60], 1-1046, [1047-1048], 1-155, [156], 1-16 (Errors: in 2nd part: 74 for 47, 370 for 371, 413 for 483, 930 for 530, 554 for 545, 535 for 635, 66 for 763, 847 for 947). Printed in black and red, within double rules, on two columns separated by double rules, with the exception of pages [2-11], [15-32], [54-55] (on one column) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table of the Addita [3-5]: 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) [7-10]: Gregorius pages XIII ad perpetuam rei memoriam (Rome, 30 December 1573, s. Cae. Glorierius) [11-32]: Calendar [33-56]: Rubricae generales [57-59]: Absolutiones et Suffragia [60]: illustration [1]-1046: Text (parts in italic type) [1047-1048]: Indices (italic type; on three columns) [1]-94: Commune Sanctorum (parts in italic type) 95-121: Officium Beatae Mariae (parts in italic type) 121-134: Officium defunctorum 134-138: Psalmi graduales 138-155: Septem psalmi paenitentiales cum litaniis and other prayers [156]: Blank 1-2: Gregorius pages XIII ad perpetuam rei memoriam (bull on the reformation of the Proprium: Rome, 30 December 1553 [sic, for 1573], s. Cae. Glorierius) 3-16: Proprium Sanctorum Hispanorum qui generaliter in Hispania celebrantur (parts in italic type) |
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| Illustrations | Woodcuts (some with the monograms of the designer P. van der Borcht [PB] and of the woodcutters A. van Leest [AVL] and G. Janssen van Kampen [J]): 1) V. on title-page, 100 × 100 (St. Petrus and St. Paulus: PB, AVL) 2) 7 illustrations, 277 × 190, in 1st part, page [60] (PB, AVL), 2nd part, pages 160 (PB, J), 398 (PB), 494 (PB), 520 (PB), 936 (PB), 1006 (PB, AVL) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 554KBR Royal Library of BelgiumNot checked which variant: Bologna University Library - Bologna (Italy)Geneviève Library, ParisBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma |
| Bibliographical references | Bohatta, no. 307 Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
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| Note 1 | Two versions were issued: one with woodcut-illustrations (as described here), and one with copper engraving-illustrations (see following no.). |
| Note 2 | Plantin was working on this edition at least from April 1575 (cf. his letter to de Villalva, 16 April 1575: Corr., IV, no. 617. See also his letters to de Virbiesca of 17 April and 3 June 1575 [Corr., IV, nos. 619 and 630]). In the first days of September 1575 he told de Virbiesca that the copies would soon be sent to Spain (Corr., V, no. 648). |
| Note 3 | The shipment to Spain was noted down on 29 October 1575. It included 1,200 copies printed on paper (1083 'à figures de bois' and 117 'à figures de cuivre'), and 12 on parchment. Another 2 copies were sent on 16 January 1576 (Arch. 22). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 164, folio 3v, and M 296, folio 2r ('Breviarium Rom. in f⁰ réglé 1575, f[euilles] 320, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 10'). The price refers very likely to copies with copper engraving-illustrations. |
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B. Version with copper engraving-illustrations.
| Title page transcription | [Within double rules:] BREVIARIVM ‖ ROMANVM, ‖ Ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilij ‖ Tridentini restitutum, PII. V PONT. MAX. ‖ iussu editum. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXV. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ ET ‖ PHILIPPI REGIS CATHOLICI. |
| Collation | Folio (380 × 240 [307; 325 from upper rule to under rule]): *⁶, A⁶, [**]⁶, ***⁸, ****⁴, A-Z⁸, Aa-Zz⁸, AA-SS⁸, TT-VV⁶, a-i⁸, k⁶, X⁸; pages [1-60], 1-1046, [1047-1048], 1-155, [156], 1-16 (Errors: in 2nd part: 74 for 47, 370 for 371, 413 for 483, 930 for 530, 554 for 545, 535 for 635, 66 for 763, 847 for 947). Printed in black and red, within double rules, on two columns separated by double rules, with the exception of pages [2-11], [15-32], [54-55] (on one column) |
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| Illustrations | Copper engravings (some with the monogram of the engraver Joannes Wiericx [IW]): 1) V. on title-page, 114 × 123 (St. Petrus and St. Paulus; IW) 2) 7 illustrations, of slightly varying dimensions, in 1st part, page [60] (287 × 183), 2nd part, pages 160 (282 × 192; IW), 398 (279 × 184), 494 (280 × 190), 520 (283 × 197; IW), 936 (282 × 197; IW), 1006 (283 × 193; IW) |
| Copies | Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial- 1. IV. 14: on vellumBiblioteca Nacional de España- R. i. 3:defect copy |
| Bibliographical references | Cf. preceding no |
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| Note 1 | Of this 1575-edition two versions were issued: one with copper engraving-illustrations (as described here); one with woodcut-illustrations (see preceding no.). |
| Note 2 | For more details: see preceding no. |
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