[Breviarium] Diurnum monasticum, Venice, Giunta, 1541, later vellum

Breviarium, Cassinese Congregation

Diurnum monasticum iuxta ritum monachorum sancte Iustine noviter impressum. (Venice: heirs of Lucantonio Giunta), 1541

8vo (155 x 101mm.), printed in red and black throughout, title with small woodcut of a bishop and woodcut Giunta device printed in red, several openings with full-page woodcut and inhabited woodcut border, woodcut initials and illustrations, later vellum, gilt and gauffered edges from an earlier binding, lacking final quire and leaf [con]2, woodcut excised from g3, occasional light dampstaining, hinges broken, edges rubbed

An uncommon and richly illustrated liturgical work, a shorter version of the Breviary containing just the services for the daytime. The Giunta workshop specialised in liturgical printing; they also produced editions of the Cassinese Diurnum in 1512 and 1562.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 72588 (listing one copy only, in San Gimignano); cf. Sander 1287 (1512 Giunta edition); cf. Bohatta, Bibliographie der Breviere 1501-1850 1251 (1512 edition)