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10 - Incunabula – Post-incunabula (Breviarium iuxta exquisitum sa…
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Incunabula – Post-incunabula (Breviarium iuxta exquisitum sancte ecclesie Coloniensis ordinarium), Winter and Summer Parts. With numerous woodcut initials. (Cologne or Paris), published by the honourable booksellers Ludovici Hornken and Godefridi Hittorpii, partners, 1520. 516 leaves (the title page and 8 leaves are missing). Two-column print in Gothic type (Textura), printed throughout in two colours: red and black (rubrics in red, lectionary and antiphon texts in black), with red column and border lines, and woodcut cadella initials. Leather binding on 4 bands with scored lines and metal clasps (somewhat rubbed and scuffed). Bohatta, Bibliography of Breviaries, 1501–1850, 213. - Catalogue de la librairie L. Rosenthal, XLIX, 1005. - Renouard, ICP, II, 2268. Only 2 copies in libraries (USB Cologne, GBIV3026., BnF, Paris BP16103929). - Extremely rare; only two copies have been recorded at auctions in the last 80 years, and no copies have been recorded on the international market. - The volume contains the complete Office of the Cologne diocesan breviary rite in the classical two-part arrangement: Pars Hyemalis (Advent to Easter) and Pars Aestivalis (Easter to Advent), both with Psalterium, Kalendarium, Proprium de tempore, Commune sanctorum and an appendix of rubrics for movable feasts (Easter, the Easter Octave, etc., recognisable by the rubrics ‘Si venerit in diem aut intra hebdomadam paschalem.’). Each part concludes with its own register of page numbers and its own colophon. – The entire volume was printed by the Parisian Liturgica printer Desiderius (Didier) Maheu, based in Rue Saint-Jacques ‘sub signo sancti Nicolai’, who printed numerous missals and breviaries for various dioceses between the early 16th century and the 1540s, including, in collaboration with Jean Kerbriant, for Nevers, Autun and Senlis. The edition was published on behalf of and at the expense (“impensis”) of the Cologne booksellers’ partnership of Ludwig Hornken and Gottfried Hittorp, who had been running a joint publishing business in Paris for the Cologne market since 1511 and had liturgical works printed by reputable Parisian printing houses. Both parts – the winter and summer sections – were completed in the same year, 1520, the winter section bearing the exact date of 16 September 1520. One page is damaged, and some pages are slightly trim-clipped. Post-Incunabula. – Printed in two columns in Gothic type (textura), throughout in two colours, red and black (rubrics in red, lesson and antiphon text in black), with red column and border rules, initials as woodcut cadel letters. Missing the title leaf and 8 leaves. Contemporary calf in a binding with 4 raised bands, blind-stamped fillets and metal clasps (somewhat rubbed and scuffed). Of the utmost rarity: only 2 copies have been recorded at auction in the last 80 years; no copy has been recorded in the international trade. USB Cologne, GBIV3026. – The volume contains the complete office of the Cologne diocesan breviary rite in the classic two-part arrangement: Pars Hyemalis (Advent to Easter) and Pars Aestivalis (Easter to Advent), each with a psalter, calendar, Proprium de tempore, Commune sanctorum, and an appendix of rubrics for movable feast dates (Easter, the Easter octave, etc., identifiable by the rubrics ‘Si venerit in diem aut intra hebdomadam paschalem.’). Each part concludes with its own register of quire signatures and its own colophon. The entire volume was printed by the Parisian liturgical printer Desiderius (Didier) Maheu, established in the Rue Saint-Jacques ‘sub signo sancti Nicolai’, who, between the early sixteenth century and the 1540s, printed numerous missals and breviaries for various dioceses, including, in collaboration with Jean Kerbriant, those for Nevers, Autun and Senlis. The edition was published on the commission and at the expense (“impensis”) of the Cologne booksellers’ partnership of Ludwig Hornken and Gottfried Hittorp, who from 1511 ran a joint publishing business in Paris for the Cologne market and had liturgical works printed at reputable Parisian presses. Both parts – the winter and summer sections – were completed in the same year, 1520, with the winter part bearing the exact date of 16 September 1520. One leaf is damaged and has been closely trimmed in places.
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