De utilitate Missae, sive De missa et utilitate eam dicentium.

Accession number: 
PML 79101
Uniform title: 
Missa.
Published: 
[Rome] : [Stephanus Guilereti], [about 1515]
Description: 
[4] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC, following Davies.
Martin Davies in The Italian Book 1465-1800, p. 47 Nr. 3 assigns: [Rome, Etienne Guillery, about 1515]; Curt Bühler in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 37 (1943), p. 158 assigns to [Rome: Johann Besicken, after 1500?].
Signature: A⁴: 4 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
No longer considered an incunable.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.7 x 10.5 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century (Italian?) blind-tooled calf over paper boards (15 x 11 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

De missa et utilitate eam dicentium

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Sotheby's, 21 July 1930, lot 257; Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 38, purchased July 1930; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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