Accession number
PML 39228
Object title
Missale Ratisponense.
Published
In civitate Babenbergensis : per magistrum Johannem Pfeyl impressus, Mccccc. Jubilei .xviii. vero Kalendas Januarii [15 December 1500].
Description
[8] I-CLXVIII [30] CC-CCCXXXII [3] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 38 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of Lathrop C. Harper, 1947.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf P8r: Anno incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice. Mccccc. Jubilei .xviii. v[er]o Kal[endas] Januarii. Liber missalis in ciuitate Babenbergen[sis]. p[er] magistru[m] Joha[n]ne[m] pfeyl impressus. finit feliciter.
Printed in Pfeyl's types 15:86G (signatures), 18:173G, 19:173G, and 20:305G.
Signatures: [1]⁸; a-b¹⁰ c⁸ d¹⁰ e-h⁸ i-n¹⁰ o⁸ p-s¹⁰; [t¹⁰ u⁸ x¹²]; A-B¹⁰ C⁸ D-E¹⁰ F⁸ G-H¹⁰ I-K⁸ L-M¹⁰ N-P⁸: 342 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Printed in black and red. Initials printed in red. Quires [t-u] of printed music, with red-printed staves.
Woodcuts of Crucifixion and Agnus dei in canon.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.5 x 25 cm.
PML copy missing 13 leaves: [1]/1 (blank) and [x]1-12 (canon).
Imprint from colophon, leaf P8r: Anno incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice. Mccccc. Jubilei .xviii. v[er]o Kal[endas] Januarii. Liber missalis in ciuitate Babenbergen[sis]. p[er] magistru[m] Joha[n]ne[m] pfeyl impressus. finit feliciter.
Printed in Pfeyl's types 15:86G (signatures), 18:173G, 19:173G, and 20:305G.
Signatures: [1]⁸; a-b¹⁰ c⁸ d¹⁰ e-h⁸ i-n¹⁰ o⁸ p-s¹⁰; [t¹⁰ u⁸ x¹²]; A-B¹⁰ C⁸ D-E¹⁰ F⁸ G-H¹⁰ I-K⁸ L-M¹⁰ N-P⁸: 342 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Printed in black and red. Initials printed in red. Quires [t-u] of printed music, with red-printed staves.
Woodcuts of Crucifixion and Agnus dei in canon.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.5 x 25 cm.
PML copy missing 13 leaves: [1]/1 (blank) and [x]1-12 (canon).
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped, dark-stained pigskin over wooden boards (38 x 26 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; original decorative endband. Leather fore edge tabs. 2 clasps and bosses missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No significant inscriptions in text. Later notations to calendar, including "Missale ad usum perpetuum Hospitalis Episcopalis," 16th/17th century (leaf [1]/1r) and textual references and "Ostertag" on 10 April (probably 17th century) added to calendar.
Provenance
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 1531 (with canon present, printed on vellum); Boies Penrose II (1902-1976), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sales, Parke-Bernet, 28 Jan. 1947, lot 81 (no mention of canon); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Lathrop C. Harper (1867-1950), June 1947.
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