It's Nova et Vetera Misprint Time Again

In volume II of the otherwise quite excellent Nova et Vetera edition of the 1962 Breviary, in the Common of Martyrs at Sext (on page 60), the versicle has an extra word inserted, by evident confusion with the text of the short responsory immediately preceding:

V/.  Exsúltent iusti in conspéctu Dei, iusti [sic].

R/.  Et delecténtur in lætítia.

While still minor, this is a worse misprint than the mistaken substitution of A for Æ...

Misprint of the Day

This is getting ridiculous:

For Confudantur at the start of Psalm 39 part iii (Tuesday Terce), read Confundantur.

(1962 Breviarium Romanum, Nova et Vetera edition, Vol. II, p. 471.)

Breviary Misprint Again

The Nova et Vetera edition of the 1962 Breviary incorrectly gives St Gregory Barbarigo's feast as occurring on the 15th of June (Vol. II, p. 644) - that should be (as in the Calendar) the 17th of June.

Please don't think me curmudgeonly, this edition is really very fine and handy, it's just that I do feel bound to note its misprints, especially as some reviewers overtly contrasted its purity of text with the F.S.S.P. reprint edition.

Yet More Nova et Vetera Breviary Misprints

I've only read the first Nocturn - three psalms - of Friday Matins from my new Breviary, and I find, twice:

Ant. 3 Ianuas cæli aperuit * Dominus, et pluit illis mana [sic] ad manducandum.

Ant. Ianuas cæli aperuit Dominus, et pluit illis mana [sic] ad manducandum.

[Breviarium Romanum, Nova et Vetera ed., Volume II, pages 547 and 548.]

At least manna is spelt correctly in the psalm itself (Ps 77:24)!

Bizarrely this reminds me of my recent reading of James Belich's Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century (which I would thoroughly recommend as a very learned and enjoyable read), since the Maori regarded the search for mana (roughly, prestige) as all-important; a sort of "keeping up with the Joneses" exercise.

But I must away, I'm consulting a climatologist...

A Nova et Vetera Breviary Misprint Again

Espied this day at None: 

Aqualis [sic] testimonia tua in æternum: * intellectum da mihi, et vivam.

 – Psalm 118:144 (Breviarium Romanum, Nova et Vetera ed., volume II, "Dominca ad Nonam", page 412)

I hope that every Æ isn't incorrectly printed....

Athanasian Creed

It's been good to begin using my new '62 Breviary from Nova et Vetera; and to celebrate, I've gone back to reading the full Office, Matins included (which Hour I find I can pray very pleasantly in bed before arising).  Yesterday being Trinity Sunday, Prime included - as once it did on every green Sunday - the great confession of Trinitarian faith known as the Athanasian Creed; here it is.

Imagine a certain clergyman of my acquaintance, who as a young Anglican choirboy would have sung this on sundry feasts as the BCP directs; I guess very few Anglicans would stomach it now.

(I am sorry to report a glaring misprint in this Nova et Vetera edition, by the way; on page 17 of volume II, it reads Aqualis Patri, instead of Æqualis Patri.)

A Confession and a Misprint

I have an admission to make: it was only last night - nearly six months after I moved to Tasmania from Western Australia - that I got around to bringing up from storage my prie-dieu (which I felt I really should use to kneel at for to say the Litanies of the Saints).

I no longer have "Catholic knees" - too much time spent standing or sitting, not enough spent meekly kneeling on my knees...  St Ambrose tells us the knee was made flexible to propitiate the wrath of God - Flectamus genua!  (At least my kneeler has padding, thanks be.)

As I've left my F.S.S.P. Breviary upstairs in the bedroom, I used my new Nova et Vetera Breviary to read the Litaniæ Sanctorum - and discovered a misprint: Per baptismum et sanctum, ieiunium tuum (note the incorrect comma).

Nova & Vetera Breviary

A free advertisement: very kindly, Nova & Vetera agreed to sell me just Volume II of their new edition of the 1962 Breviarium Romanum, for (oh dear, what a pity I didn't buy when the Aussie dollar was almost on par with the American) €99 (plus €10 for postage and handling), and their extremely smart and well-made product has just arrived - I paid them on the 13th inst., so it's taken but 15 days to get here from Germany.

I now, therefore, have a mismatched but perfectly serviceable set of the 1962 Breviary with the Vulgate Psalter - previously, my Volume II had the nasty Pius XII Psalter (I mean the translation, not the august deceased Supreme Pontiff!), and perforce I juggled both volumes in order to have St Jerome's incomparable version of the Psalms with the correct propers, this being particularly cumbersome and involved when Michaelmas came round with its proper Psalms...

My Volume I is the 1995 F.S.S.P. facsimile edition of the 1961 Dessain printing of the Breviary; both volumes are exactly the same in height and width (approx. 18 by 11 cm, or 7 by 4⅓ inches), but the F.S.S.P. Volume I is 4.5 cm thick, almost double the Nova & Vetera Volume II's thickness of 2.5 cm (c. 1 inch).  The difference appears to be that the N & V edition has thinner but no less sturdy paper.  Other sources I have consulted have remarked on the superior purity and uncorruptness of the liturgical text as reproduced in the N & V edition; certainly there are at least half a dozen very minor misprints in the F.S.S.P. edition (a letter missing at the end of a word or suchlike).

I would certainly recommend anyone wishing to pray the 1962 Breviary to purchase the Nova & Vetera edition!