Diurnale Benedictinum, Augsburg, 1572, contemporary stamped calf, Donauwörth copy

Diurnale monasticum

[Diurnale monasticum secundum rubricam Romanam, et secundum ritum consuetudinemque fratrum monasterii s s. Udalrici et afre augustensis ordinis sancti Benedicti.] (Augsburg: Valentin Schönig, 13 December 1572)

8vo (130 x 91mm.), printed in red and black throughout, woodcut initials, contemporary blind-tooled calf, numerous index tabs, two clasps, lacking title-page and final blank,binding rubbed and rebacked, lacking both straps

A rare liturgical work produced for the Benedictine monastery of SS Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg; Bohatta records just two copies, and there was also a copy owned by Estelle Doheny (also from the Oettingen-Wallerstein library).

At the back of the volume is a manuscript list of abbots of the Imperial abbey of Donauwörth from 1601, naming thirty abbots from Theodoricus to Christophorus.

LITERATURE:

VD16 B 8212 (listing one copy only, in Munich); Bohatta, Breviere 1058 (listing copies in Munich and London)

PROVENANCE:

Benedictine monastery of the Holy Cross, Donauwörth, list of abbots on final blank and notes on inside front cover and in calendar, [their library acquired by]; the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, armorial ink stamp on a2; Ampleforth Abbey library, ink stamp on front flyleaf