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Breviarium Moguntinum, Mainz, 1509, Stb Ink a 36 a


Title: Breviary Moguntinum

Print Year: 1509

Location: Mainz

size: 462 (41) Journal

Format: Octave

cover material: wooden lid with leather and metal closing

Binding Description

The cover consists of leather - maybe beef? - Related wooden boards, is provided with blind printing, and has two simple metal clasp, of which only parts are attached to the binding obtained. The Close themselves are no longer available.

Both front cover and back cover with wheels are designed completely in the same composition. A frame surrounds a rectangular middle, above and below which a tape was released. The midfield is filled with three parallel rollers, the outer show a checked pattern surrounded with points and the average frame similar to a floral vine pattern. All spaces must be provided with additional iron coating lines and this also emphasize a point in the middle tapering the frets of the back.

on all three outer edges of a reservation made for aesthetic reasons slope can be seen which is accentuated by small indentations.

shows the back of the book four exposed double frets and has a call number, but remained otherwise unadorned.

This is a German Renaissance binding.

Provenance


on the front mirror found a handwritten entry in possession of a red Appelius John Cyprian of blessed city. This was to 1618, vicar of the Church of Our Lady of Mainz and then until his death Vicar of St. Victor (25.8.1618-28.8.1632). Since the reference is to St. Victor in his entry, the acquisition of the Breviary precipitated by JC Appelius well in this period. Besides other annotations and notes in the book, it is the only existing property entry.

The most striking hand-written entries are in the calendar portion of the breviary, there were all written in Latin numerals beside Arabic. A longer note in Latin was written on the rear mirror.

The text of the book closes down on the last page printed in red with a colophon which the information about printer location, and year includes: Johann Schöffer, Mainz, in 1509.

to confirm this information, it follows on the last printed page the printer Signet aldermen, two shields hanging on a piece of branch. The logo was first used by Peter Schöffer 1462 and concluded in 1469 in long-term use of Mainz pharmacy.

paper

The format of the breviary, octave, are seen watermark difficult. They appear in the fold and four shared. The only more or less easily identifiable and meaningful part of a water mark was visible on one of the blank endpapers. It is a bear in a circle of teeth.

Strangely, the characters very similar to the C260 series, the classical and the watermark the mill in Upper St. Gallen Chräzeren applies. Dated documents on this sign, however, are only the 17th Century shows the period between 1623-1627.

typography

For the text were used broken Gothic fonts. It is Schöffer T5 (Textura, Johann Schöffer used since 1503) and T9 and 17 (Gotico-Antiqua, used since 1506 or 1509). The font size varies within the book. The front main section was printed in a larger 31-line script in the following parts in a small 35-line (T17 with the smallest font size) on the content definition.

red and black print alternate, with the black print is dominant in the main parts. The initials and paragraph marks in the respective award retains color, as is the Initialmajuskeln that are somewhat larger set and broken with the paragraph mark the text instead of paragraphs.

The type area is constructed in the main parts of two columns. Smaller parts such as the register was set in part but only in one. Abbreviations and ligatures were still frequently used. At the bottom sheet signatures are also appropriate to ij with the letter and start on the next leaf zij.

initials

can Initialmajuskeln Besides, there are even more decorative initials. They are decorated in different styles and are very different. On sheet V is a C-initial, which is found in other species (tr Ink a 36, 36 b and d). It is a Lombard with split ends on vegetable-background-engraved in black. There are also several calligraphic decorative initials in red and another yet another style.

content and structure

Since it is the book to a breviary, it contains a summary and reduction of various books for the liturgical hours of prayer to be used. The Breviary is printed on the old Roman model, because in Mainz was only the beginning of the 17th The new century, adopted in 1568 by Pope Pius V reformed breviary.

Remarkably, the text begins with a handwritten "praeparatio ad missam" (preparation for mass), followed by a handwritten title page also. For the constitution of the title page was to be clearly identified based on a printed model.

The remaining structure is divided into a calendar section (7 pages), a tab (11 sheets), a table of contents, a first main part (starting with "officiis diebus ad matutinas") and three other parts, completed by a second index.

Johann Schöffer received the order to print a breviary from the diocese of Mainz first 1509th Were then in the Mainz Offizin parallel editions printed in two formats, a folio and a Oktavfertigung. The here studied breviary containing this octavo of 1509 and was intended as an owner and used.