Bod-Inc: B-547
Breviarium
Breviarium Sarisburiense [Salisbury].
Analysis of Content
[1a1r] [Calendarium.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, unpaginated section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives pp. 3-14), with variations.
[1a7r] [Computus.]
[1a7v] ‘Tabula psalterii'.
A1r [Psalterium feriatum.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 5-260.
K7r [Litaniae sanctorum.]
L1r [Commune sanctorum.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 364-459, ending with ‘In natali vnius matrone', for which see II 556-7.
N10r [Rubrics: extracts.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, unpaginated section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives p. 19).
N10v ‘Versus de fine orationum siue collectarum'. Incipit: ‘Per dominum dicas, si patrem presbyter oras | Si Christum memores per eundem dicere debes'; 4 hexameters.
N10v ‘Orationes de sancto Wolfado martyre, de sancta Radegunde uirgine, de sancta Modwenna uirgine, de sancta Editha uirgine'. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, unpaginated section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives p. 20).
O1r [Officium BVM parvum.] ‘Seruitium beate Marie'. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 283-312, with different ending, including ‘lectiones de sancta Maria in tempore Pasce'.
P1r [Officium dedicationis ecclesiae.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, pp. mccccxlix–mccccxcii.
2a1r [Benedictiones matutinales.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, unpaginated section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives pp. 17-18).
2a2r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, pp. v–mxxviii.
a ſꝝ1r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, III 1-320.
h ſꝝ1r ‘In festo yconie saluatoris'. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 321-9.
✠1r [`In commemoratione Thome'.] Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 315-17.
✠1v ‘Translatio sancti Cedde'. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 317-19.
✠2v ‘In commemoratione sancti Cedde'. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 319-21.
✠3r ‘Commune Paschalis temporis'. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 355-62. Beginning of Commune sanctorum.
Imprint
Imprint: Rouen: Martin Morin, 2 June [c.1492]. 8°.
Remarks: Pr dates to [1497?].
Collation
Collation: Calendarium: [1a8]; Psalterium–Commune sanctorum: A–I8 K10 L M8 N10 O P8; Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis: 2a–x8 y6; Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis: 3a–f ſꝝ8 g ſꝝ10 h ſꝝ4; Officia annexa: ✠4.
Remarks: Leaf K5 signed Nv, N5 signed Kv.
References
ISTC: ib01178400
GW: GW 5450;
Hain: C 1314;
Proctor: Pr 8775;
Others: Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 482; Henry Bradshaw, ‘Printed Sarum Breviaries', ed. Procter and Wordsworth, p. xliii; Duff 69; STC 15795.5; Sheppard 6812.
LCN: 13985333
Copies
Copy number: B-547(1)
Wanting g6-7 of Proprium de tempore (Office for S. Thomas Becket); references to S.Thomas Becket and Popes deleted in kalendarium.
Printed on parchment; bound in two volumes. Proprium de tempore bound before Psalterium–Commune sanctorum; Officia annexa bound before Proprium de sanctis. Leaf [1 a8] contains the continuation of the Tabula psalterii, and is not blank, unlike GW. The year 1492 is printed in the Computus on1 a7r.
Binding: Eighteenth-century English(?) gold-tooled brown morocco; within a border formed by a single gilt fillet, a repeated floral and a repeated foliate tool form a dentelle; stamped with the arms of Michael Wodhull; gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns. Both volumes rebacked.
Size: Both vols: 150 × 103 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 140–2 × 93–8 mm.
Principal initials are supplied in white on a gold ground, decorated with either a strawberry or a flower in red and green, or with dots in red, blue, and white. Each initial is accompanied by a half-border within red rules, decorated with flowers (in some instances identifiable as poppies) or strawberries in red and green, and other flowers and foliage in blue, green, gold, and red, and decorative pen-strokes in black. By a French hand, probably from the same workshop that decorated the following books: The George Abrams Collection, Sotheby's, 16-17 Nov. 1989, lots 47 (Albrecht von Eyb, Margarita poetica I. Paris: Ulrich Gering, 20 Nov. 1478), 50 (Robert Gaguin, Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum. Paris: Thielman Kerver for Durand Gerlier and Jean Petit, 13 Jan. 1500), and 119 (Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae. Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 11 Feb. 1499); see also A‑475. Other initials are supplied in red, blue, or interlocked red and blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Underlining in red. Capitals touched with yellow wash. Text enclosed within single red rules.
Provenance: Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); the gold stamp of his coat of arms on the upper cover of each volume; not in Wodhull sale; no annotations on endleaves. Richard Gough (1735-1809). Bequeathed in 1809.
SHELFMARK: Gough Missals 67b, 68.
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