Bod-Inc: B-532
Breviarium
Breviarium Coloniense [Cologne].
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius habet dies xxxi, luna xxx . . .’ It includes: 11 Jan. ‘Obitus tercii regis'; 21 Jan. ‘Patrocli m'; 30 Jan. ‘Aldegundis v'; 6 Feb. ‘Dorothee v'; 11 Feb. ‘Desiderii ep et cf'; 1 Mar. ‘Suicberti ep'; 16 Mar. ‘Heriberti ep et cf'; 26 Mar. ‘Ludgeri ep et cf'; 2 May ‘Transl. Cassii et Florencii m'; 13 May ‘Seruacii ep et cf'; 29 May ‘Maximini ep'; 4 July ‘Udalrici ep et cf duplex'; 26 July ‘Ermolai presb'; 10 Oct. ‘Gereonis et soc. eius, duplex (red)'; 21 Oct. ‘Undecim milia virginum. duplex (red)'; 23 Oct. ‘Seuerini ep, duplex (red)'; 12 Nov. ‘Cuniberti ep, semiduplex (red)'; 4 Dec. ‘Annonis ep'.
[*1r] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘In iano claris calidisque cibis potiaris | Atque decens potus post fercula sit tibi notus'; 4 hexameters for each month of the calendar. See Walther, Proverbia, 11795.
[†1r] [Computus.] Incipit: ‘Tabula annorum communium et bisextilium . . .’
[†2r] [Rubrica generalis.] Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine sancte et indiuiduae trinitatis . . .’ pro informatione novitiorum horas canonicas legere volentium . . .Nota bene predictum argumentum.’
[†3r] ‘Rubrica adventus'. Incipit: ‘[S]equens registrum docet qualiter singulis annis per adventum . . . Ad vesperas. Solenniter de festo nativitatis Christi ut in loco suo. Deo gratias.’
[†8r] [Invitatorium.] Incipit: ‘Ita incipientur hore in priuato tam de sanctis quam de tempore. Ad matutinum. Pater noster. Aue Maria . . .’
[†8v] [Horae de cruce.] Incipit: ‘Sequitur officium sancti crucis dicendum in fine omnium horarum. Antiphona. Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus . . .’ Oratio. Has horas canonicas cum devotione . . . in agone amen.’
a1r [Psalterium feriatum.] Incipit: ‘Dominicis diebus ad matutinas . . . Invitatorium. Adoremus dominum qui fecit nos . . . Psalmus i.[B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’ [Oratio.] Anime omnium fidelium defunctorum . . . in pace amen. Explicit Psalterium.’
g2r [Litaniae sanctorum.]
g3v [Officium defunctorum.]
h1r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune sanctorum per totum annum excepto tempore pasca(!). Et primo de apostolis in festis duplici. Ad primas vesperas. Antiphona. [E]cce ego mitto vos sicut oues . . .’ Sequuntur suffragia de domina et omnibus sanctis per adventum.’
k5v [Suffragium BVM cum suffragio de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘De domina nostra per aduentum. Missus est Gabriel angelus . . .’ Collecta. Concede nos, ut supra. Deinde cetera suffragia etiam ut supra.’
k9v ‘Rubrica de festis'. Incipit: ‘Ex quo clare in locis suis patet qualiter festa videlicet summa duplex . . .’
k11v ‘Benedictiones matutinales'. Incipit: ‘Benedictiones ad lectionem in matutinam. In festis ix lectiones. In i nocturno. [E]xaudi, Domine Jesu Christe, preces seruorum . . .’ Explicit commune sanctorum . . .et benedictionibus ad lectio. in matu.’
l1r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit pars breviarii hyemalis de tempore. Dominica prima aduentus domini ad primas vesperas. Antiphona. Benedictus. Capitulum. [E]rit in nouissimis diebus preparatus mons domus . . .’ [Nota.] Si festum sancti Marci . . .in loco suo dicetur etc. Explicit pars hyemalis de tempore.’
y1r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit secunda pars hiemalis berviarii(!) de sanctis. Et primo de sanctis Saturnino Crisanto et Daria . . .’ Collecta. [B]eatorum martyrum tuorum, Domine, Saturnini . . .’ [Sancti Ambrosii ep.]Si venerit in dominicam aliquam . . .vesperis'.
[con]6v [First colophon.]
A1r [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘In die sancto Pasce. Ad mat. Domine labia mea aperies . . .’ [Dominica xxv Penthecosten.] Collecta. Excita, ut supra. Cetera ut supra in dominica secunda.’
I9r [Officium in dedicatione ecclesiae.]
K1r ‘Ordinarius de sanctis in octava pasce venientibus'. Incipit: ‘Incipit pars estivalis de sanctis . . .’ [S]i festum sancti Georgii venerit in die Parasceues . . .’ post octava pasce ut supra notatum est etc.’
K4r [Commune sanctorum infra pasca et penthecostes.] Incipit: ‘Incipit nunc commune sanctorum infra pasca et penthecostes servandum. In festo unius apostoli . . . Antiphona. Iustus germinabit sicut lilium . . .’ [In festo plurimorum sanctorum] Explicit commune de sanctis infra pasca et penthecostes.
K6r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars estivalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit nunc de sanctis infra pasca et penthecostes venientibus . . .’ [Sancti Lini pape.] Dominica proxima post Lini inchoatur adventus . . .qualiter servandum sit. lxxvii. Deo Gratias.
X4v [Second colophon.]
X4v [Valediction.] Incipit: ‘Valete et valeant qui nos male viuere optant.’
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Hermann Bumgart, 6 June 1500. Folio.
Collation
Collation: Calendarium: [*]6 [†]8; Psalterium–Commune sanctorum–Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis–Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis: a–g8 h10 i8 k12 l–o8 p8+1 q–t8 v x6 y z [et]8 [con]6; Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis–Proprium de sanctis. Pars aestivalis: A–H8 I10 K–V8 X4.
References
ISTC: ib01150925
GW: GW 5313;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 195; Oates 837; not in Sheppard; Voulliéme, Köln, 285.
LCN: 13983997
Copies
Copy number: B-532(1)
Leaf [†8] bound after [†1]; leaf [†2] signed i, [†3] signed ii, etc. Many leaves repaired, especially in gathering e, and g1.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century dark blue straight-grained morocco. Scars of index tabs.
Size: 260 × 194 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 253 × 180 mm.
Early marginal notes in a number of hands. On A1r, a drawing in black ink of a seated figure, with hair coloured in gold. Early manuscript additions to the Calendarium: 26 May ‘Festum Pentecostes'; 12 Aug. S. Clara, 25 Aug. S. Ludovicus, 17 Sept. Stigmata of S. Francis (venerated in France), and S. Lambertus, 27 Sept. S. Elzearus, Count of Ariano (venerated at Apt, Vaucluse), 7 Oct. S. Birgitta (Sweden), and 27 Oct. [Translation of] Ivo, priest of Tréguier (venerated in Brittany); also a cropped note on [*1r], referring to the Third Order of Franciscans.
On a1r a seven-line initial ‘B' is supplied in gold, edged in black, with foliate decoration, on a blue ground with decoration in white and red. A three-quarter foliate-staff border is supplied in green, red, blue, brown, and gold; the outer margin is decorated with foliage in red and blue, in the centre of which is David playing a harp; the border has been cropped. On c4r a five-line initial ‘S' is supplied in gold with a foliate extension into the inner margin and with red decoration, on a purple ground with white foliate scrolling, edged with red, with red pen-work extensions into the inner margin. On c8v, a stylized foliate initial ‘E' is supplied in blue. On h1r a five-line initial ‘E' and on f2v a five-line initial ‘D', are both supplied in purple, with white foliate decoration and edging, on a gold ground. On l1r a six-line initial ‘E' is supplied in gold, with foliate decoration, on a blue ground edged with red, and with red pen-work extensions into the inner margin. On A1r a five-line stylized foliate initial ‘A' is supplied in gold, touched with red and green. Other initials are supplied in red or blue, some with reserved white foliate infill, and extensions into the margins in black ink or in red. Some initials are coloured over in red or blue, paragraph marks stroked in blue or red, capital strokes in red. Underlining in red.
Provenance: Probably in France by the early years of the sixteenth century; French associations in additions to Calendarium. Giovanni M. Nerli (fl. 1860); gift from ‘I.O'; inscription in pencil on front endleaf, dated 3 July 1860: ‘Joanni M. Nerli | doctissimo eruditissimoque amico | in memoriam itineris per multas terras atque | in Dalmatiam nec non et Montem Nigrum | cum eo iucunde feliciterque factum | I.O. | dono dedit iii mentis Julii | A.D. mdccclx'. Probably Chislehurst, Kent, S. Nicholas College Library; shelfmark(?) ‘P.R. I.h.32'; name and shelfmark on pastedown. Purchased from E. van Dam on offer at £150 on 26 Oct. 1971; notes on pastedown and verso of front endleaf.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. G3.1500.1.
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