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 THE CHUR BREVIARY OF 1490. 45 library of Chur itself, 1 was first noticed by Dr. Copinger (' Supplement,' no. 1273), and has since been more fully described by Dr. Reichling ('Appendices/ part II, p. 130) ; it is now in the British Museum. Although to a certain extent ' situ squalens et lacerum,' to use the expression of Bishop Paulus, the volume for the most part remains as it left the early binder's hands, and if only because of its extreme rarity it will be of interest to supplement Dr. Reichling's description with some further detail, before going on to discuss the circumstances and date of its production. A. Dr. Reichling has not attempted to give more than a very general collation of the book as it stands, but it is fortunately possible to arrive at a much exadter result by the help of the 1520 edition, which is arranged on the same general lines, although it differs in a good many details and contains a quantity of fresh matter. 2 The following synopsis of the contents is based on a comparison of the two issues and seems to leave room for uncertainty only on a few minor points : i. Ff. [1-8]: preface, calendar, table of septuagesima and the dominical letters. On the first page is a cut (156 by 122 mm.) with the arms of Bishop Ortlieb von Brandis, a burning brand, quartered with the arms of the 1 It is very possibly the same copy that was seen by A. Eichhorn, the diligent historian of the diocese, who quotes from the prefatory letter by Bishop Ortlieb in his l Episcopatus Curiensis' (1797), p. 134. This seems to be the only mention of the Breviary between those of Bishop Paulus and Dr. Copinger. 2 * Fecimus nouos libros antiquis multo concinniores emenda- tioresque,' says the preface of Bishop Paulus.