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Shipping BREVIARIUM ABERDONENSE/1854/RARE 1st E/ONLY 4 COPIES OF THE ORIG.1509 SET EXTANT VERY RARE - SCARCE EARLY EDITION VERY RARE - SCARCE FIRST EDITION - FIRST ISSUE RARE LIMITED EDITION of an IMPORTANT & UNCOMMON EDITION FINE ORIGINAL MOROCCO LEATHER BINDINGS ONLY FOUR COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL ABERDEEN BREVIARY ARE EXTANT. THIS IS ONE OF ONLY 500 COPIES BREVIARIUM ABERDONENSE Edited by William Blew: Preface by David Laing LONDON: Apud J. Toovey [for the Maitland Club], 1854 [published date: 1854]. Rare 1st Edition in 2 volumes. (Pars Estiva & Pars Hyemalis). Thick 4to. 11" x 9" inches (LxB). Pp. [26], cxxxii; lvii; clxxiii, [ii, Table], [i, Colophon]; [17ff], cxxxii; cxliiii; cvii, [i, Colophon] pages, single sided pagination. Text in red and black: Gothic type. Handsomely bound in original fine 1/2 straight grained morocco leather binding over cloth boards, with gilt lettering on the spine; complete with the 3rd volume Pp. xxvii, [16] pages, which is cloth bound with a printed cover-paper label on the spine, detailing the contents of all three volumes. The first & only Facsimile of the 1509-10 edition, only four copies of the original Aberdeen Breviary are extant. The Aberdeen Breviary (Latin: Breviarium Aberdonense) is a 16th-century Scottish Catholic breviary. It was the first full-length book to be printed in Edinburgh, and in Scotland. The Breviary prepared under the personal superintendence of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, and printed at Edinburgh by Chapman in 1508-09. Only four copies are known to exist. "The plan adopted in re-editing the Aberdeen breviary has been... to produce. as complete a facsimile of the two small volumes...as was compatible with the enlargement of size, the magnificence of the type, and the due exercise of judgement in amending flagrant and patent errors, such as deformed the original impression.". The Breviarium Aberdonense Around the year 1500, the task of giving Scotland a large-scale national hagiography was taken in hand by William Elphinstone, bishop of Aberdeen. His Breviarium Aberdonense (Aberdeen Breviary), published in Edinburgh (Dun Eideann) in 1506, is the most important collection of Scottish saints� lives, largely in the form of short lessons for their feast-days. There seems to have been a conscious attempt to spread the net over the whole of Scotland, to include saints from every diocese and to have a sprinkling of obscure and little-known local saints as well as national heroes such as St Ninian and St Margaret. It is not always clear whether the compilers of the Breviary used a well-known existing vita of a saint, or a less well-known local legend. There is a tendency in the Breviary to claim saints as Scots who were, in fact, Irish. Thus St Finnbarr, venerated at Dornoch and Barra (Barraidh), is made son of a Caithness nobleman related to a local king called Tigernach, but the incident described in the readings has been lifted from an Irish Life of St Finbar of Cork (Corcaigh) that locates it, and King Tigernach, in south Munster (Mumu). The Breviary includes a good deal of local legend and tradition. For example, the lessons for St Patrick allude to his supposed birth at Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde (Cluaidh) near Dumbarton (Dun Breatann), and also to traditions relating to �St Patrick�s Well� and �St Patrick�s Stone� near the kirkyard. These were important places of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. For many of its 80-odd Scottish saints, the Aberdeen Breviary provides our only information. Extremely rare. Absolutely spectacular. A classic work, complete as issued. A SCARCE BOOK SET. NOT A SINGLE SET FOUND ANYWHERE?. $1500/- FOR VOLUME 1 ONLY on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/275064869535 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_Breviary . Check sellers other auctions as we have N UMEROUS OTHER RARE Titles coming up. Visit store: Booker17:- Books Treasures Sign up for newsletter Please take some time to view the images as they form an important part of the description and will give you a good idea of condition. Questions and offers most welcome . CONDITION REPORT: A Rare book set in the original publisher's 3/4 dark brown morocco leather binding with some wear, tear, scuffing, rubbing to spine, ends & corners, the cloth over boards are discolored, soililed & stained, pages are clean & bright, the binding is tight & intact. The leather is smooth & supple to the touch. Note: The slim 3rd volume spine cloth gone. Note: The cloth of the 2 leather volumes is stained. 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