Missal leaf, Canon of the Mass illustration (MS M.955).

Hugo von Hohenlandenberg (1460-1532), bishop of Constance (1496-1529, 1531-1532), who commissioned the four-volume missal; volume 1 was sold in Geneva in 1832, and was dismembered; eleven of its leaves are privately owned, but some of them are on loan to the Rosgarten Museum in Constance. The other three volumes, all intact except for a few excised leaves, have been in the Erzbischöfliches Archiv, Friburg im Breisgau since 1928 (Da 42 2, Da 42 3, and Da 42 4). The leaf that is now identified as Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.955 made its way to England, where it was part of Alfred Morrison's (1821-1897) collection; then it descended to Lord Margadale of Islay, F.D., who sold it in London, Christie's, Mar. 20, 1973, lot 115; the present location of the Te igitur initial which originally faced the Crucifixion is unknown.