Bod-Inc: B-533
Breviarium
Breviarium Constantiense [Constance].
Analysis of Content
[1a2r] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius habet dies xxxi . . .’
[1a8v] ‘Benedictiones matutinales'.
[*1r] [Rubrica generalis.] Incipit: ‘Pro maiori directione quedam generalia sunt . . .’ Trigesimaquinta regula. Undecim hebdomadas . . .posponitur festum. Finiunt feliciter regule.’
2a1r [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘Incipit psalterium secundum cursum Constantiensis dyocesis . . . Inuitatorium. Adoremus Dominum qui fecit nos. Psalmus. Venite exultemus . . .’ Oratio. Animabus quesumus domine omnium fidelium defunctorum . . .esse participes. Qui vivis et regnas etc. Finit psalterium.’
e10v [Litaniae sanctorum.]
1aa1r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘[I]n aduentu Domini ad primas vesperas . . .’
ab3r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.]
am9v [Commune sanctorum.]
A1r [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘In vigilia Penthecostes. Invitatorium. Regem ascendentem . . .’ [Dominica xxv] Oratio. Ex[c]ita domine quesumus tuorum fidelium voluntates . . .percipiant. Per dominum. Finit pars estivalis de tempore.’
Q1r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘In vigilia sancti Johannis Baptiste . . . Initium sancti euangelii secundum Lucam. Fuit in diebus Herodis regis . . .’ [Vigilia sancti Iacobi.] Oratio. O domine Iesu Christe adoro te resurgentem . . .miserere mei amen.’
2aa1r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune sanctorum per circulum anni. Et primo de euangelistis. Ad vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona. Estote fortes in bello . . .’ [In nativitate plurimarum virginum.] Oratio. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui infirma mundi . . .sentiamus. Per. Finit commune sanctorum.’
2dd4v [Officium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘Antiphona. Presta, Domine, vt quisquis. Capitulum. Vidi civitatem sanctam Hierusalem . . .’ Euangelium. Zachee festinans . . .facta est alleluia. Finis'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger?, c.1488]. Folio.
Remarks: Ascription to Grüninger doubtful: see BMC.
Collation
Collation:
Calendarium: [1a8]; Rubrica generalis: [*]6; Psalterium: 2a–d8 e12; Proprium de tempore, Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis: 1aa–zz ab ac
Illustrations: Two woodcuts.
Watermarks: Watermark: crossed keys; Sheppard notes that this watermark is rarely, if ever, found in Grüninger's books.
References
ISTC: ib01155000
GW: GW 5321;
Hain: H[not C] 3826;
Goff: Goff B‑1155;
BMC: BMC I 117;
Proctor: Pr 502;
Others: Sack, Freiburg, 824; Schreiber V 3594; Sheppard 363.
LCN: 13983962
Copies
Copy number: B-533(1)
Wanting the Pars hiemalis; also [1 a1.8], the blank leaf Mm8, and2 dd8.
Binding: Contemporary German (Tübingen, Kyriß workshop no. 124) blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; two catches and clasps lost. On both covers triple fillets form an intersecting frame, within which is a circular evangelist symbol (St John) stamp (Kyriß pl. 249, no. 2) and a lozenge-shaped dove stamp (Kyriß pl. 249, no. 1). On the upper cover triple fillets form a further frame, within which is a circular Catherine wheel stamp (Kyriß pl. 249, no. 3), and also the inner rectangle, which is decorated with a lozenge-shaped lattice-work stamp (Kyriß pl. 249, no. 4) and two small foliate stamps (Kyriß pl. 249, nos 5 and 6). On the lower cover triple fillets form an inner rectangle, which is divided by further triple fillets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, decorated with the Catherine wheel stamp. Parchment index tabs.
Size: 313 × 220 × 96 mm.
Size of leaf: 293 × 208 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes. On back endleaf, a lists of liturgical works in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 1519. Purchased from David Nutt (1837), no. 245 for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 7, and Library Bills (1837-8), no. 12.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 2.18.
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