{"id":56674,"date":"2025-12-02T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=56674"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:46:41","slug":"the-hereford-breviary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2025\/12\/02\/the-hereford-breviary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hereford Breviary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of pre-reformation church service books were printed, and this naturally included\u00a0 breviaries, some of which contained readings from the Life of St Botolph.\u00a0 I don’t know if there is a list somewhere of what exists and what is in each, beyond the excellent Usuarium<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

In 1505 a breviary for Hereford Abbey was printed in Rouen (Rotomagus) by a certain Inghelbert Haghe.\u00a0 I learn from an 1893 book[ref]E. Gordon Duff, Early Printed Books. London, 1893. Online here<\/a>.[\/ref] that:<\/p>\n

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Of this book only three copies are known. One, textually perfect, and containing both parts, is in Worcester Cathedral Library. The Bodleian has a Pars Estivalis, slightly imperfect, and another copy is in private hands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A wretched microfilm of the Bodleian copy of the first part is in Early English Books Online (EEBO).\u00a0 This database is only accessible to research libraries who subscribe, which is a bit sad.\u00a0 But as I discovered today, it is actually quite difficult to find this book even in EEBO, thanks to the abbreviated title.\u00a0 The searcher is advised to look for “Breuiariu secundu vsum herford”!\u00a0 The url is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Breuiariu[m] secundu[m] vsum herford
\nAlternate title: Breviary. Hereford
\nBibliographic name\/number: STC (2nd ed.) \/ 15793.
\nAnonymous; Catholic Church.\u2009 EEBO Bodleian Library records – unstructured. [526] p. London: Emporio [P. Olivier and J. Mauditier] impensis et cura Ingheiberti haghe [in London, at the expenses of Margaret, Countess of Richmond] ,, 1505.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The copy comes complete with copyright notice, or rather, admission of guilt.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the PDF is no better, and often far worse.\u00a0 Is it better than nothing?\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 If anybody from ProQuest is reading this, it would be good to improve things here.<\/p>\n

The Hereford Breviary was edited under that title in three volumes for the Henry Bradshaw Society by W.H.Frere, in 1904.\u00a0 Here are the volumes at Archive.org:<\/p>\n