Accession number
PML 79589
Object title
Missale speciale.
Published
[Basel] : [Printer of the Missale Speciale (Johann Meister?)], [about 1473?]
Description
[192] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1953.
Notes
For the date and printer, and also an account of earlier identifications and ascriptions, see Stevenson, The problem of the Missale speciale (London, 1967).
Printed in the Printer of the Missale Speciale type 1:232G.
Falsely ascribed as a missal for Constance use, but rather contains special readings for Sunday and feast masses for the diocese of Basel.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰; 8-9¹⁰; 10⁶; 11-12¹⁰; 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸; 17⁸; 18-20¹⁰]: 192 leaves; leaves [1]/5, [4]/3, [9]/8-10, [12]/10, [17]/6-8, and [20]/9-10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.9 x 21.4 cm.
PML copy is leaf [5]/2.8 only (leaves "37" and "[42]"); 7.8 cm fragment of leaf [5]/8.
Printed in the Printer of the Missale Speciale type 1:232G.
Falsely ascribed as a missal for Constance use, but rather contains special readings for Sunday and feast masses for the diocese of Basel.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰; 8-9¹⁰; 10⁶; 11-12¹⁰; 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸; 17⁸; 18-20¹⁰]: 192 leaves; leaves [1]/5, [4]/3, [9]/8-10, [12]/10, [17]/6-8, and [20]/9-10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.9 x 21.4 cm.
PML copy is leaf [5]/2.8 only (leaves "37" and "[42]"); 7.8 cm fragment of leaf [5]/8.
Binding
In folder, in red morocco slipcase with gilt title, "Missale Speciale Constantiense."
Variant title
Missale Constantiense
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, red capital strokes and foliation. Foliation in same hand as PML 45545.
Provenance
Josephine Wallis, Lucerne, 1941; Baron Ferdinand von Neufforge (1869-1942), purchased from Wallis, 1941, Baroness Neufforge sold 4 leaves and 2 fragments to: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, with 3 leaves and 2 fragments sold to other American collections.
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