Breviary. Use of Eichstätt

Chancery 4to (200 x 140mm.), 381 leaves, calendar: 1⁸, psalterium: 2¹² 3-11⁸ 12¹³; proprium de tempore: 13-21⁸ 22⁶; proprium de sanctis: 23-38⁸ 39⁴; commune sanctorum: 40-43⁸; officium dedicationis templi: 44⁶; officium defunctorum: 45¹⁰; lectiones: 46¹⁰ 47⁸, 31 lines, gothic type, printed in red and black throughout, two-line red initials, engraved arms of Wilhelm von Reichenau, bishop of Eichstätt, beneath red printing on 1/1v (1/1r blank), contemporary manuscript liturgical music in margins of psalter (some staves left blank), start of Psalter with contemporary decoration (slightly soiled), 4-line initial supplied in blue with the picture of a bishop in the gutter and a man/monkey within leafy decoration at foot, on 26/4 a portrait of St Willibald, bishop of Eichstätt, manuscript foliation and running titles, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards from the Erfurt binder known as Steifer Hirsch I (active from the 1480s into the sixteenth century) with rosette and pierced heart stamps, two clasps, in modern buckram folding box, new pastedowns, with a detailed note from the Cockerell Bindery about the repairs dated 1986 pasted to inside lower cover, two notes in Mendham's hand pasted to front flyleaf (in Latin and English) regarding this edition, occasional light soiling, all leather index tabs broken off, lacking both straps

inscriptions on flyleaf recording the movement of the book between 1581 and 1616 from Michael Baier in Herrieden and the priest of Pleinfeld (both in Bavaria); Capuchins of Dinkelsbühl

H 3837; GW 5340; BSB-Ink B-866; IGI 2093

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Neither ISTC nor GW nor Schreiber record the presence of the engraved arms (90 x 98mm.) of Wilhelm von Reichenau (1464-1496), bishop of Eichstätt, on the first leaf of the calendar. The earlier Würzburg edition of 23 February 1483 (in folio, GW 5339) contains a larger version of these arms (Schreiber 3598; 185 x 191mm.). The smaller version appears also in the Statuta Eystettensia, printed in Eichstätt by Michael Reyser in 1484 (Schreiber 5301, BSB-Ink S-556).

Rare: ISTC records only eight copies (including the present copy), three of which contain only the pars hiemalis.