Accession number
PML 127003
Object title
Missale Cenomanense.
Published
Rothomagi : per me Guillaume Le Tailleur, Die iovis vicesimanona me[n]sis octobris. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadri[n]gentesimooctuagesimonono [29 October 1489]
Description
[210] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on The Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1989.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf M7v: Exaratum est et co[m]pletum. fideliterq[ue] ac diligenter emendatum rothomagi hoc opus secu[n]dum usum modernum ecclesie cenomanensis cum additione festo[rum] de novo instituto[rum]/ ac suis in locis positoru[m]/ non nullarumq[ue] missarum ad devotionem dice[n]tium prout patere potest in tabula in principio kale[n]darii posita i[n]sertarum: per me Guillermu[m] le tailleur ante prioratu[m] sa[n]cti laudi eiusdem civitatis rothomagensis co[m]morantem/ ad instantiam venerabilis viri magistri petri hennier presbiteri in decretis licentiati. eiusdem ecclesie cenomane[n]sis canonici rectorisq[ue] parrochialis ecclesie sa[n]cti petri de curia cenmanen[sis]. diocesis Die iovis vicesimanona me[n]sis octobris. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadri[n]gentesimooctuagesimonono.
La Talleur's device, leaf [1]/1r.
Printed in La Talleur's types 10:112G, 11:112G, and 12:113G (leaves n3r-6r in canon only).
Signatures: [1⁸]; a-m⁸; [2]²; n⁸; A-M⁸: 210 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio.
Woodcuts of Crucifixion and Enthroned God the Father, leaves [2]/1v-2r. Primary incipit pages with woodcut borders.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 22.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf M7v: Exaratum est et co[m]pletum. fideliterq[ue] ac diligenter emendatum rothomagi hoc opus secu[n]dum usum modernum ecclesie cenomanensis cum additione festo[rum] de novo instituto[rum]/ ac suis in locis positoru[m]/ non nullarumq[ue] missarum ad devotionem dice[n]tium prout patere potest in tabula in principio kale[n]darii posita i[n]sertarum: per me Guillermu[m] le tailleur ante prioratu[m] sa[n]cti laudi eiusdem civitatis rothomagensis co[m]morantem/ ad instantiam venerabilis viri magistri petri hennier presbiteri in decretis licentiati. eiusdem ecclesie cenomane[n]sis canonici rectorisq[ue] parrochialis ecclesie sa[n]cti petri de curia cenmanen[sis]. diocesis Die iovis vicesimanona me[n]sis octobris. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadri[n]gentesimooctuagesimonono.
La Talleur's device, leaf [1]/1r.
Printed in La Talleur's types 10:112G, 11:112G, and 12:113G (leaves n3r-6r in canon only).
Signatures: [1⁸]; a-m⁸; [2]²; n⁸; A-M⁸: 210 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio.
Woodcuts of Crucifixion and Enthroned God the Father, leaves [2]/1v-2r. Primary incipit pages with woodcut borders.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 22.5 cm.
Binding
18th-century quarter green calf, with green mottled paper sides, over paper boards (32 x 23.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; green edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks, L-brackets, and underlining, and yellow capital strokes; major initials gilt on red and blue ground with white highlighting. Canon woodcuts (leaves [2]/1v-2r) hand-colored in pale wash. 4-leaf vellum quire added after quire [2] with manuscript text for canon of the mass. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. "S Genovese virigins" added to calendar on 4 January in a contemporary hand. A few pen trials in bottom margins throughout, with several bottom margins torn away (leaves b2 and H1).
Provenance
Paul Michael Pavier, presibter in Laval (Mayenne), inscription: "Ex libris Pauli Michaelis Pavier de la Bizaodieve [Besançon?] Presbiteri Lavallensis 1723," inked out (leaf [1]/1r) and "P: C: Lejay Lavall 1762" (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1989.
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