10 - Incunabula - Post-Incunabula

Incunabula - Post-Incunabula (Breviarium iuxta exquisitum sancte ecclesie Coloniensis ordinarium), Winter and Summer Parts. With numerous woodcut initials. (Cologne or Paris), published by the honorable booksellers Ludovicus Hornken and Godefridus Hittorpii, partners, 1520. 516 leaves. (Title page missing, 6 leaves, 7 handwritten calendar leaves (replaced, 1 of which is blank), 80 numbered leaves (9 and 71–78 missing), 124 numbered leaves, leaves 81–112 (incorrectly bound, leaf 88 missing), 44 unnumbered leaves, 96 numbered leaves, 128 unnumbered leaves). Two-column print in Gothic type (Textura), throughout in two colors—red and black (headings in red, lectionary and antiphon texts in black), with red column and border lines, initials in woodcut cadelles. Leather binding on 4 bands with scored lines and metal clasps (somewhat worn and scraped). VD16 ZV 28247 (for the first part, incorrectly listed as ccxxiiij instead of cxxiiij folios). - Bohatta, Bibliography of Breviaries, 1501–1850, 213. - Catalogue of the L. Rosenthal Bookstore, XLIX, 1005. - Renouard, ICP, II, 2268. Only 2 copies in libraries (USB Cologne, GBIV3026; BnF, Paris BP16103929). - Extremely rare; only two copies have been documented at auctions in the last 80 years, and no copies have been documented in the international market. - The volume contains the complete Office of the Cologne Diocesan Breviary Rite in the classical two-part arrangement: Pars Hyemalis (Advent through Easter) and Pars Aestivalis (Easter through Advent), both with a Psalter, Calendar, Proprium de tempore, Commune sanctorum, and an appendix of rubrics for movable feasts (Easter, the Easter Octave, etc., identifiable by the rubrics “Si venerit in diem aut intra hebdomadam paschalem.”). Each part concludes with its own register of page numbers and its own colophon. - The entire volume was printed by the Parisian Liturgica printer Desiderius (Didier) Maheu, located on Rue Saint-Jacques “sub signo sancti Nicolai," who printed numerous missals and breviaries for various dioceses between the early 16th century and the 1540s, including, in collaboration with Jean Kerbriant, for Nevers, Autun, and Senlis. The edition was published on behalf of and at the expense ("impensis") by the Cologne booksellers’ partnership of Ludwig Hornken and Gottfried Hittorp, who had been operating a joint publishing business in Paris for the Cologne market since 1511 and had liturgical works printed at reputable Parisian printing houses. Both parts—the winter and summer sections—were completed in the same year, 1520; the winter section bears the exact date of September 16, 1520. —One page has a defect; some minor foxing; some pages are slightly trimmed. Post-Incunabula. — Printed in two columns in Gothic type (textura), throughout in two colors, red and black (rubrics in red, lesson and antiphon text in black), with red column and border lines, initials as woodcut cadel letters. Missing the title leaf and approximately 9 leaves; 7 calendar leaves (replaced) in manuscript (1 blank). Contemporary calf over 4 raised bands with blind-stamped fillets and metal clasps (somewhat rubbed and scuffed). Extremely rare: only 2 copies have been found at auction in the last 80 years, and no copies have been found on the international market. USB Cologne, GBIV3026. - The volume contains the complete office of the Cologne diocesan breviary rite in the classic two-part arrangement: Pars Hyemalis (Advent through Easter) and Pars Aestivalis (Easter through Advent), each with a psalter, calendar, Proprium de tempore, Commune sanctorum, and an appendix of rubrics for movable feast dates (Easter, the Easter octave, etc., identifiable by the rubrics “Si venerit in diem aut intra hebdomadam paschalem.”). Each part concludes with its own register of quire signatures and its own colophon. The entire volume was printed by the Parisian liturgical printer Desiderius (Didier) Maheu, established on Rue Saint-Jacques “sub signo sancti Nicolai,” who, between the early sixteenth century and the 1540s, printed numerous missals and breviaries for various dioceses, including—together with Jean Kerbriant—those for Nevers, Autun, and Senlis. The edition was published at the request and expense (“impensis”) of the Cologne booksellers’ partnership of Ludwig Hornken and Gottfried Hittorp, who, beginning in 1511, ran a joint publishing business in Paris for the Cologne market and had liturgical works printed at reputable Parisian presses. Both parts—the winter and summer sections—were completed in the same year, 1520; the winter part bears the exact date of September 16, 1520. —One leaf has a defect; some small reinforcements; trimmed closely in places.