Agenda.

Accession number:

PML 34179

Published:

Würzburg : Georg Reyser, [not before 2 June 1482]

Description:

[104] leaves : illus. (engraving) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1937.

Notes:

Collation: [1⁶; 2-6⁸ 7⁶ 8-12⁸ 13-14⁶]: 104 leaves.
Colophon (leaves [1]/6r-v): Et ut igitur de h[uius]mo[d]i libro[rum] impressura indulgentiisq[ue] nostris Episcopalibus ut prefertur per nos datis cunctis plenior pateat fides iussimus annuimus ut commemoratus Jorius Ryser artis imp[re]ssorie magister huisumodi agenda[rum] libros ut predicitur | imp[re]me[n]dos n[ost]ro[rum] po[n]tificat[us] [et] cap[ita]li insigniis decoraret Datu[m] i[n] civitate n[ost]ra herb[ipole]n[sis]. Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxx secundo. D[omi]nica Trinitatis.
Engraving with arms of the chapter of Würzburg and Rudolf von Scherenberg (leaf [1]/6v) after Monogrammist AG.
Incipits, crosses, minor initials, rubrics, and staves printed in red. Printed music.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy lacking 1 leaf: [1]/1. Many leaves torn in the margins, repaired with printed waste from a German incunable.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.9 x 18.9 cm
Printed in Reyser's types 3:180bG and 4:180aG.
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Incipit agenda. Et primo d[omi]nicis diebus ad aspergendu[m]. Benedictio salis et aque.

Binding:

Contemporary German bare boards (27 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with modern leather spine by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 1 clasp, wanting.

Variant Title:

Agenda Herbipolensis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, some Lombard initials added by hand, capital strokes in red. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Gregorius Albrecht, inscription: Hic liber inventus est sub tecto Ecclesiae Floxbarcensis(?) die 3 May 1740 a P. Gregorius Albreht [sic] p.t. ejusdem Ecclesiae parocho et monasterii Neustatt [Neustadt am Main] O.S. Ben: professo (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L'Art Ancien, July 1937.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Engraving

Wooden boards (Binding)

Printed waste (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books