[CURIA ROMANA - Breviario] - [Breviarium secundum consuetudinem Romanae Curiae. Venezia: Jacobus Rubeus, 1474]. The first or second Breviarium ever printed, this copy on vellum. Cristina Dondi calls it the first but others (Pell, GW) give precedence to the one printed the same year in Turin. The incunable contains 1) Calendar (ll. 2recto-7verso); 2) Ordinarium divini Officii (ll. 8recto-101recto); 3) Psalterium Breviarii Romani (ll. 102recto-312verso; 4) Proprium Sanctorum (ll. 313recto-371verso). The decorations have been completed immediately after the printing. Decorated initials on gold (ll. 8v, 102r) and other backgrounds (ll. 25recto, 32verso, 39recto, 45recto, 53verso, 61recto, 70recto, 313verso). Large and medium initials decorated in blue or red (from l. 192verso to l. 312verso the illuminator didn't decorate the initials); small initials in blue and red by another illuminator; touches of yellow to capital letters. Double floral frieze to ll. 8verso, 102recto. Incunable on vellum (ll. I, 1-371, I’, with blank l. 101verso [the Gregory law has been respected]; lacking 226 leaves; 170 x 122mm). Collation: 1 (4), 2-8 (12), 9 (8), 10 (2), 11-22 (12), 23 (8), 24-25 (12), 26 (8), 27-28 (12), 29 (8-1 [without final blank]), 30-34 (12). Small gothic script. Black ink (main text) and red (rubrications). Traces of early manuscript collation in Latin letters cropped during later bindings (ll. recto 8, 70, 84, 92, 94, 104, 127, 139, 152, 188, 236, 242, 254, 266, 274, 276, 290, 298, 306, 308, 315, 325, 341, 348, 350, ); no catchwords. 29 lines of text in two columns. L. I (reused) with a manuscript text from the Moralia in Iob if Gregorio Magno. (Waterstaining to ll. 346-371). Later calf decorated in gilt (light wear). Provenance: Seminaire? (small red stamp at first leaf of Calendar). Cristina Dondi. The Liturgical Policies of the Ospitallers between the Invention of Printing and the Council of Trent: The Evidence of the Early Printed Breviaries and Missals, in The Military Orders Volume III: History and Heritage, Routledge 2008, pp. 63-71: 63; Pell 2920; GW 05125 The lot is accompanied by a export license.


Estimate € 10,000 - 15,000

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