Bod-Inc: B-543
Breviarium
Breviarium Ratisponense [Regensburg]. Pars aestivalis.
Analysis of Content
[1a2r] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius. Circumcisio. Octaua sancti Stephani . . .’ The edition was commissioned by Henricus IV de Abensberg, Bishop of Regensburg; see GW 5433 (Anm).
[1a8r] [Tabula historiarum.]
[1a9r] [Orationes.] Incipit: ‘[O]remus pro omni gradu ecclesie. Sacerdotes tui . . .’
[2a1r] [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘[Psalmus.] [B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’
[3a1r] [Hymnarium.] Incipit: ‘[V]eni, creator spiritus, mentes tuorum uisita . . .’
[4a1r] [Proprium de tempore.] Incipit: ‘In sancta nocte ad vesperas. Antiphona. [V]eni, sancte spiritus, reple tuorum . . .’
[k4r] [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit de sanctis pars estivalis. Et primo de sancta [P]etronella. Capitulum. Virgo cogitat. Responsorium. Regnum mundi . . . Oratio.[A]diuua nos quesumus domine beate Petronelle virginis . . .’
[n4v] [Officium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘Sanctificauit dominus tabernaculum suum, hec est domus dei . . .’
[5a1r] [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune sanctorum. Et primo de apostolis. Ad vesperas. Antiphona. Estote fortes in bello et pugnate . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Würzburg]: Georgius de Spira (Georg Reyser?), [before 13 June 1480]. 4°.
Remarks: Printed in type 4 of the editions ascribed by Ohly to Georg Reyser, here working at Würzburg; on Georgius de Spira as printer see Frieder Schanze, ‘Der Drucker des Breviarium Ratisponense (`Georgius de Spira'). Zur Schlußphase der Ariminensis-Offizin in Straßburg 1479-1481/82', Gb Jb 69 (1994), 67-77. BMC assigns to [Speier].
Collation
Collation: Calendarium: [1a12]; Psalterium: [2a–d12 e10]; Hymnarium: [3a6]; Proprium de tempore–Proprium de sanctis: [4a–z A–O8]; Commune sanctorum: [5a8 b10].
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ib01176000
GW: GW 5433;
Hain: H *3838 = 3883; C 1292 (= 1293?); R 439;
Goff: Goff B‑1176;
BMC: BMC II 485;
Proctor: Pr 3255;
Others: Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 226 = 369 = 371; BSB‑Ink B‑884; Ernst Consentius, Das Breviarium Ratisponense von 1480 aus der Sammlung von Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr (Berlin, 1921); Ohly, ‘Reyser', 46; Schreiber V 3619; Sheppard 1927.
LCN: 13985277
Copies
Copy number: B-543(1)
Hymnarius bound after Proprium de tempore and Proprium de sanctis. Some leaves repaired, particularly in gathering [3 b].
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, for the Bodleian Library. Parchment index tabs.
Size: 223 × 156 × 66 mm.
Size of leaf: 214 × 150 mm.
Some early annotations. In the Calendarium, three early manuscript additions: 18 July ‘Materni epi. et m. . . . Curiensis' (Chur, Switzerland), 20 July ‘Arbogasti epi. et m. . . . Curiensis', 27 Aug. ‘Gebhardi epi. Constanciensis' (Konstanz, Switzerland).
Initials, many with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red; occasional initials are supplied in black ink. Capital strokes and underlining in red. Woodcut on [1 a12v] coloured with red strokes.
Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark suggests a date in the late 1850s.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.21.
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