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Creator:
Catholic Church. Breviary
Title(s):
Breviarium augustanum.
Published/Created:
[Augsburg] : [Erhard Ratdolt], [1495]
Physical Description:
2 pts. in 1 v. : illus. (coat of arms, diagr., device) ; 18 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0755
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zi 1907: Collation as above given in the order used by the Gesamtkatalog. In the Yale copy there is only one copy of the sections common to both parts, and the sections of the Pars aestivalis are bound after the corresponding sections of the Pars hiemalis, except for the table which is bound preceding that of the Pars hiemalis. Printed in red and black. Initials and floral marginal decorations in gold and colors at the beginning of each section. Vellum leaf with coat of arms in gold and colors inserted after the tables. Fol. 1 (recto blank, verso Ratdolt's preface and Augsburg arms) wanting. Bound in old stamped pigskin over wooden boards, with corner and center bosses and brass clasps; gilt and goffered edges. The hooks of the clasps are missing. Labeled on shelf-back: "Psalterium 1495". For fuller description see collation leaf in volume.
Collation: pars hiemalis: 12 ff. (f. 12 blank), 401 numb. ff., 1 f. (blank), 40 numb. ff., 1 f.; pars aestivalis: 4 ff., 87-360 numb. ff., 2 ff. (blank).
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5267
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. II, page 388
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1147
Incunabula short title catalogue, ib01147000
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 3794*
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 1907
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0755: Imperfect: two leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer.
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