A. Version with woodcut-illustrations. No copy known B. Version with copper engraving-illustrations.
| Record ID | cp013396 |
| Voet reference number | 829 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Uniform title | BREVIARIUM |
| Title page transcription | [Within double typographical rules:]BREVIARIVM ‖ ROMANVM, ‖ Ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilij ‖ Tridentini restitutum, ‖ PII V. PONT. MAX. ‖ iussu editum. ‖ Cum Kalendario Gregoriano perpetuo. ‖ Permittente Sede Apostolica. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXXXIIII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [150]: *-***⁸, ****⁴, A-Z⁸, Aa-Zz⁸, AA-OO⁸, PP⁴, a-i⁸, pages [1-56], 1-966, [967-968], 1-143, [144] (Errors: in 2nd part: 24 for 42, 65 for 56, 06 for 60, 778 for 178, 76 for 376, 410 not numbered, 465 for 456, 594 for 495, 50? for 506, 111 for 511, 56? for 565, 789 for 780, 786-829 impossible to check, 89 for 893). Printed in black and red, within double rules on two columns, separated by double rules, with the exception - printed on one column or printed on two columns but not separated by double rules - of some pages of the introductory part (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) [7-24]: Calendar [25-50]: Rubricae generales [50-52]: Absolutiones et Suffragia [53-55]: Indices (italic type, parts in roman type) [56]: 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 | |
| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) V. on title-page, 40 × 55 (St. Petrus and St. Paulus) 2) 8 illustrations, c. 110-113 × c. 73-75, some with the monograms of the designer Pieter van der Borcht (PB) and of the engravers Pieter Huys (PH) and Joannes Wiericx (IW), in 1st part, page [56], and in 2nd part, pages 108, 148 (PB; PH), 366 (PB ?; IW), 455, 480, 864 (IW), 928. With the exception of the illustration on page 108, printed within a typographical border |
| Copies | Corpus Christi College, Oxford- Z. 56.13 |
| Bibliographical references | Bohatta, no. 333 (under 1583; referring to a copy in Paderborn, destroyed, however, during Second World War) Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 3792 (under 1583) Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | Of the edition two versions were issued: one with woodcut-illustrations (no copy known), and one with copper engraving-illustrations. |
| Note 2 | Edition 'ad longum'. |
| Note 3 | Of this edition 2,500 copies were printed (Arch. 788). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 321 (Breviarium Rom. in 8⁰ ad longum cum figuris aeneis et cum figuris Com[munibus ? = ligneis] 8⁰, f[euilles] -, [price:] Aeneis [stuivers] 42, Com. stuivers 32), and Ms 296, folio 2r ([Breviarium Rom. 8⁰ ad longum cum figuris aeneis] Idem a⁰ 84, [price:] stuivers 42). The price of the copies with woodcut-illustrations was thus 32 stuivers, of the copies with copper engraving-illustrations 42 stuivers |
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