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335 N+N Pavlov LA Book Fair Feb '92 $110 (-10%) France? Breviary (Latin) Double MSS leaf on vellum, written in Low Countries in 15th C. (2nd 1/2) (bifolium) 15 X 22.5 cm. 30 lines to a page, written in a dark brown ink Alternating 2 and one line initials in red + blue. Lightly ruled in pink. Red underlinings + yellow rubrication of the capitals. 2 sizes of script. Sa Augusti' (rus) 8/28 Saint Taken as a whole, the Breviary forms a sort of synthesis of ecclesiastical knowledge; and in truth, for centuries there was scarcely any intellectual culture beyond that for the education given to clerics aimed merely at making them proficient in the recitation + understanding of the Breviary. Breviary headings - Invitatorium, Hymnus, Inprimo nocturno, lectio i, ii, iii, In secundo nocturno Missal - Introitus, Offertorium, Secreta, Communio + - Post communio. breviarium - "an abridgment'. - before the reform ordered by the 2nd Vatican Council contained the formularies of daily prayer.

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MSS on vellum. A leaf from a Carta Executoria de Hidalguia. Granada, Spain: 1585. 31 x 21 cm. folio, 34 lines to a page, within gold + red border. 5 initials in various colors. Patent of nobility during the reign of Philip II. (1556-1598) Written in black ink in a rounded gothic hand. (→ husband to Mary Tudor.)

The last quarter of the 18th C. was the high water mark for calligraphy + ornamentation in Carta Ejectorias Hidalguia. The recognition of the nobility privilege was especially important because of the exemption from taxes that came with it. 1492 - conquest of Granada ends Moorish power in the peninsula. Moriscoes (ie. an Islamic convert to the Christian religion) at 1st allowed freedom of religion but finally in 1568 on an edict of Phillip II, they were ordered to give up all Moorish ways of life. (expelled from Spain in 1609) 1588 - The Great Armada

caballeros - knights. hidalgos - nobles dependent on the king. proceres - independent nobles.

The concern for purity of lineage (i.e. freedom from Jewish, Moorish or convert blood in a family record) had become almost a national preoccupation in Spain by the 17th C; it was a basic requirement for a claim to nobility or for an important appointment.

As the use of paper spread during the Renaissance, it came to be the usual medium for official + everyday use; by 1520 the use of vellum by Spanish officials was almost exclusively in carta de hidalgaia, other forms of grants of privileges + appointments of high officials

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See #232 Leonardus de Utino (circa 1400 ; died 1469) Semones aurei [?dei?] sanctis. [Cologne : Printer of the Albertus Magnus de Vintutibus, (Johann Solidi?), before 25 July 1474]. folio. Ref: Goff L-155 H: 16127 Polain (B) 2477 Oates 612 Poll 7139 Type [left arrow] P^ 1127. BMCI 237. Plate #42 [?in?] Haebla (German) ([?7882?]) Cop: B^UL, LC, New L, UNCal (2). Biblio. Nat.

[a-z, A-Q¹⁰ RS¹²] 414 leaves, the last blank. 2 col. 38 lines, 187x126 mm. One to 5 & 10 line spaces left for capitals. Type 98 - the [?Dares?] - Flores 100 type on its smallest body - no book of this group is dated. 2 original forms of A, one quasi-roman -, the left shank caried well below BMC Vol. VIII J. Solidi (Schilling) - 1st printed at Vienne, France. [right arrow] a craftsman from Basel - had printed from 1473 onwards at least 10 books -, a Type of which the origination must be sought at Cologne. Having printed at Basel the books formerly described as the work of the "Printer of the A. Magnus" at Cologne ([?II , 236?]), Solidi fled the city to escape from his creditors about the end of [?1476?] & is next heard of at Vienne, (1478) where he was the 1st printer.

- In festo sancti Marci evangeliste Sermo.

Johann Schilling calls himself in Latin Johannes Solidi - a native of Winternheim, in the diocese of Mainz, he studied in Basel & Frankfurt. See Haebke Western Incunabula [right arrow] plate 49, type 1. German Incunabula [right arrow] plate 42, type 1

- { 1472 in Koln, then active in Basel where he fled from his creditors in 1476.