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Breviarium Moguntinum, Mainz, 1517, Stb Ink a 36 c

Title: Breviary Moguntinum

printing location: Mainz

Print Year: 1517

size: 209 (10) Journal

Format: Octave

Binding Material: vellum in textile Close




Binding Description


This cover is a cover with parchment Flexibe reference was used for the interior of waste. This was originally two book closing of textile were present, what remains to be seen on the small residues at the front and back cover.

front and rear is a similar structure of the decoration cover to see. Outdoor runs, a narrow frame of two lines and in the four corners of a stamp is embossed with leaf motif, both of which surrounds the largely empty midfield, at the center is an oval stamp or a plate (the size can be both) is located. This means decorating the manner of a Maureskenmotivik reveals the oriental influences on the cover design during the Renaissance. The front cover has engraved in addition (unclear meaning) in the upper half of the middle field, the alphabetic and AHE in the bottom half single number stamp 1585th All pressures are further highlighted with a dark color.

The back is flat, but has an emphasis on the underlying double frets, string through two iron lines. In addition to two other small ornamental temples found there several signature plates, a large S, the signature and the sequence 399th

Provenance

The Breviary contains a total of very few hand-written entries, including any personal property items.

worth mentioning only an attached pencil scrinio num is 13 and below 399 (= label on the spine, see above) on the front of the mirror. This type of registration is an indication of the Augustinians, so the books of your selected stocks.

typography

for the content of the breviary, a broken gothic font used. Textura Fonts (more precisely, T5 and T6, since Johann Schöffer used in 1503 or 1506) go on Schöffer Peter Elder back and were used in addition to liturgical printing primarily as display type.

Unlike other species of the Breviary edition there is no variation in the lettering. All parts appear in 31-line pressure. Nevertheless, here go red and black print - with a majority of the black pressure - and initials and paragraph marks are held in the respective color distinction. The Initialmajuskeln by the Lombards Style her full members, along with the text of the paragraph marks.

The type area shows up a structure to a smaller portion of two columns. Abbreviations and ligatures are often used and at the bottom are arc signatures printed for the bookbinder. You start with the letter ij and on the following sheet zij.

initials

in the text at the beginning, mostly large pieces were also placed great Zierinitalen about five rows away. Often the full Lombards with pearls in red print.

Particularly striking, however, two decorated initials, an H and a B-initial. The H-shaped cap is negative on red and marked with colored bands. The b-initial is surrounded by a rectangle filled with plant ornament, the letter itself is not printed in white but in full red. This distinction they are quite different, although they fit stylistically from its form, was neither in the text and cover in case the initial H-even parts of Scripture.

content and structure

The book contains liturgical genre as his breviary according to a summary and reduction of various books that are used for Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. It is printed on the old Roman model.

In the present Breviary lacks a title page and the text begins with a calendar (6 sheets). The first main part, which it followed begins with "great ad Adventis ..." and then followed by a second body, beginning with "officiis diebus ad matutinas" (as opposed to ink a tr 36, 36 a, b and d). A third component, which includes 6 leaves outside the leaf count.

The book is one of the last edition breviary under John Schöffer in the Mainz Offizin of 1517. It was a repeat of the first diocese of Mainz commissioned Oktavfertigung of 1509 and contained only one still with context-sensitive information about the celebration of the sancti ferial (= low gross) in the diocese of Mainz.