tib01176000

Text-inc Id:

tib01176000

Bod-inc Id:

B-543

Headings:

Breviarium Breviarium Ratisponense [Regensburg]. Pars aestivalis.

Analysis of content:

1. [1a2r] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius. Circumcisio. Octaua sancti Stephani . . .’ The edition was commissioned by Henricus IV de Abensberg, Bishop of Regensburg; see GW 5433 (Anm).
2. [1a8r] [Tabula historiarum.]
3. [1a9r] [Orationes.] Incipit: ‘[O]remus pro omni gradu ecclesie. Sacerdotes tui . . .’
4. [2a1r] [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘[Psalmus.] [B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’
5. [3a1r] [Hymnarium.] Incipit: ‘[V]eni, creator spiritus, mentes tuorum uisita . . .’
6. [4a1r] [Proprium de tempore.] Incipit: ‘In sancta nocte ad vesperas. Antiphona. [V]eni, sancte spiritus, reple tuorum . . .’
7. [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 . . .’
8. [n4v] [Officium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘Sanctificauit dominus tabernaculum suum, hec est domus dei . . .’
9. [5a1r] [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune sanctorum. Et primo de apostolis. Ad vesperas. Antiphona. Estote fortes in bello et pugnate . . .’

Imprint:

[Würzburg]: Georgius de Spira (Georg Reyser?), [before 13 June 1480]. 4°. 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:

Calendarium: [¹a¹²]; Psalterium: [²a–d¹² e¹⁰]; Hymnarium: [³a⁶]; Proprium de tempore–Proprium de sanctis: [⁴a–z A–O⁸]; Commune sanctorum: [⁵a⁸ b¹⁰]. Woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01176000 GW 5433; H *3838 = 3883; C 1292 (= 1293?); R 439; Goff B‑1176; BMC II 485; Pr 3255; 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:

1. B-543(1) Copy 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.