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50 THE CHUR BREVIARY OF 1490 As, however, the discrepancies in the order of service were of long standing, and had led to the introduction of service books from other dioceses, the clergy had found a difficulty in conforming to this book of rules, and he had therefore now had printed c libros horarum ' for all and sundry of the priests and clerics under his charge. These books being now obtainable of the episcopal officials at Chur, the clergy are enjoined under a penalty to provide themselves with printed copies within a month of the ' insinuation ' of these presents. The date of this preface proves incontestably that the Breviary was printed off and ready for circulation a little before the end of January, 1490, and, being a large book, must therefore have been begun some considerable time before the close of the year 1489. We may also remark in passing that the distinction here drawn between ' breuiarium,' in the sense of a short abstract, and c liber horarum,' the Breviary proper, is a somewhat unusual one; but Latin composition was evidently not Bishop Ortlieb's forte, and it would be unfair to press the point too far. II. THE Breviary contains no indication either of its printer or its place of origin, beyond what can be inferred from the style of the types and the wood- cut capitals, but it is evident from the description of these already given that the book can have been pro- duced only in one city namely, Basel. 1 Among 1 Dr. Copinger ascribed it to the Printer of the 1483 'Jordanus* at Strassburg, and Dr. Reichling has been content to take over this ascription unexamined.