- GUILLELMUS DURANDUS, RATIONALE DIVINORUM OFFICIORUM. [Mainz]: Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer, 6 October 1459
- Collections:
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- Incunabula at Princeton
- In Principio
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- F & S grouping
- The Scheide Library
- Treasures of Rare Book Division
- Curatorial Note:
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- Durandus’s widely read 13th century treatise on the Divine Offices of the church was the first printing of a major work by a post-biblical author. Like the Psalters of 1457 and 1459, it features large two-color initials, but its lengthy text was printed with a much smaller rotunda type. At least 50 copies survive, all on vellum except for one in Munich that was collected from paper proof sheets. Copies were sold not only north of the Alps, but also in Italy. This copy, evidently bound in Mainz, emerged from obscurity in 1800, when Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha purchased it from Jean-Baptiste Maugerard, a Benedictine monk who doubled as an agent for book collectors.
- Bookseller:
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- H.P. Kraus (Firm)
- Author:
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- Durand, Guillaume, approximately 1230-1296
- Provenance:
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- WHS copy from Duke of Gotha; acquired 1/55 from H. P. Kraus.
- Creator:
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- Durand, Guillaume, approximately 1230-1296
- Language:
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- Latin
- Call number:
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- 50.1
- Extent:
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- 160 leaves ; 42 x 30 cm.
- Format:
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- Book
- Type:
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- Early works to 1800
- Description:
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- All known copies on vellum, except that at Munich.
- Publisher:
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- Mainz : Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer, 6 Oct. 1459.
- Subject:
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- Catholic Church—Liturgy—Early works to 1800
- Title sort:
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- Rationale divinorum officiorum.
- References:
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- Stillwell D328.
- Goff D-403.
- HR 6471; DeR(M) 65; Pell 4491; IDL 1649; IGI 3614; IBP 2010; Sajó-Soltész 1224; Madsen 1464; Oates 21; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 722; Sheppard 27-28; Pr 66; BMC I 20; BSB-Ink D-324; GW 9101.
- Printer:
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- Fust, Johannes, 1400-1466
- Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425-approximately 1502
- Created:
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- 1459-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1459
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/fj236615b
- Location:
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- WHS 50.1
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
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