Accession number
PML 226
Object title
Missale Basiliense.
Published
[Basel] : [Michael Wenssler], [approximately 1488]
Description
[10], LXXXV, [15], LXXXVI-CCXXI, [13] leaves : illustrated (woodcut) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
GW dates about 1488. Undated in Goff, CIBN dates between 1486 and 1490. Dated about 1494 in Weale-Bohatta.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a-i⁸ k⁶ l⁸; [2]¹⁴; m-z A⁸ B-C⁶; D⁸ E⁶ F⁸; aa-bb⁶: 260 leaves, leaves l8, [2]/14, C6, and F8 blank. Quire [1] signed leaves ii-v, quire [2] signed leaves ii-vii.
Printed in black and red.
Chancery folio. 2 columns, 28 lines; canon: 1 column, 14 lines. Types 13:158G, 14:158G, and 15:229G. 5-line initial spaces, with guide letters printed in red.
Woodcut Crucifixion on leaf [2]/1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 21.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
GW dates about 1488. Undated in Goff, CIBN dates between 1486 and 1490. Dated about 1494 in Weale-Bohatta.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a-i⁸ k⁶ l⁸; [2]¹⁴; m-z A⁸ B-C⁶; D⁸ E⁶ F⁸; aa-bb⁶: 260 leaves, leaves l8, [2]/14, C6, and F8 blank. Quire [1] signed leaves ii-v, quire [2] signed leaves ii-vii.
Printed in black and red.
Chancery folio. 2 columns, 28 lines; canon: 1 column, 14 lines. Types 13:158G, 14:158G, and 15:229G. 5-line initial spaces, with guide letters printed in red.
Woodcut Crucifixion on leaf [2]/1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 21.5 cm.
Binding
16th-century blind-tooled Swiss pigskin over partially-bevelled wooden boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports [possibly bound at Augsburg -- suggestion from Bennett cat. based on rolls]. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 2 clasps, partially missing. Parchment fore-edge tabs.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication (where needed), blue lombards. Crucifixion woodcut hand colored. Annotations: A few 16th-century "see folio" citations in text.
Provenance
Wolfgang Coriarius, purchase inscription: "Hic liber sacer missale spectat ad Wollffgangu[m] Coriarij Solodori Sacallanum Et Empt[us] aparochianis Rusticis In vilagio winigen [Weiningen, Switzerland?]: Anno domini 1527: In die Hilarii [13 January]" (leaf [1]/1r); James Elwin Millard (1823-1894), bookplate (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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