Lectura super Canone Misse in alma universitate Tuwingensi ordinarie lecta.

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Accession number: 
PML 25322
Author: 
Biel, Gabriel, -1495.
Published: 
[Reutlingen] : Johann Otmar, 15 November 1488.
Description: 
[359] leaves ; 30.5 x 22 cm. (fol.)
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Purchased in 1928.
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Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r): Lectura super Canone Misse in alma universitate Tuwingensi ordinarie lecta.
Colophon (leaf Z9v): ...Imp[re]ssum attamen feliciterq[ue] [con]summatu[m] impensis et singulari cura Magister Joha[n]nis otmar civis Rutlingen[sis] Anno .1488. in p[re]festo Otmari sancti abbatis .15. die Novembris.
Printed in Otmar's types 6:81G and 7:170G.
Collation: [1-2]⁸ [3]¹⁰; a-zA-L⁸/⁶ M⁶ N-Y⁶/⁸ Z¹⁰: 359 leaves, leaves a1 and Z10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 20.5 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (30.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Johann Schüssler in Augsburg (EBDB w001512/Kyriss 90, a.k.a. Wundervogel or Fuchsvogel-Meister I) active ca. 1484-94. Vellum manuscript leaves (lectionary, 14th/15th century) as pastedowns, with contemporary plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; edges colored yellow. 1 clasp and rear board chain attachement, wanting. Top board paper title label and shelf mark, abraded.
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Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations and NB marks, mainly near beginning.

Provenance: 
Shelf mark, unidentified (Freiburg i.B. Franciscans?): c 20 (front pastedown); Freiburg im Breisgau (Baden-Württemberg), Franciscans, inscription, 1648: "Franciscanorum Friburge Brisgoice 1648" (leaf [1]/2r); Strasbourg, Jesuits, Domus Argentinensis booklabel with shelf mark: 87 D, 18th century (front pastedown); shelf mark (Strasbourg Jesuits?): E.26 and .68., 17th/18th century (front fly leaf recto); E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. XIII, no. 223 (rear fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt, Feb. 1928.
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