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[Missale Roschildense].

Accession number
PML 127241
Object title

[Missale Roschildense].

Published

[Mainz] : [Peter Schoeffer], [about 1484]

Description

[2] leaves ; 33 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased on the L.C. Harper Fund, 1992.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Schoeffer's type 7:149a (BMC); see Needham, Schøyen sale, Sotheby's NY 1991, lot 39.
On the former identification as a Missale Hafniense (Copenhagen), see Andersen, "De trykte missaler fra Roskilde stift og deres bogtrykkere - en nyvurdering."
Collation: fragment, two leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.8 x 24.8 cm.
PML leaf 1 (127241.1) text from Temporale including parts of the 21st and 22nd Sundays in Pentecost; leaf 2 (127241.2) from Ordinary of the Mass with prefaces for Nativity, Epiphany, and Easter.
PML leaf 1 (127241.1) with glue stains on recto, darkened verso and crease down outer edge; leaf 2 (127241.2) with crease down outer edge and small tear near bottom of column b.
Binding
In folder of beige cloth, from Schøyen Collection. Title label: "Missale Haffniense / Mainz: Schöffer 1483 / Inc. 49."
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards and red capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Martin Schøyen (b. 1940), Schøyen Collection booklabel, Inc. 49 (front pastedown) (4 other leaves of this edition are now in the library of the cathedral school in Oslo (Oslo katedralskole, gift of Martin Schøyen)), Schøyen sale, Sotheby's NY, 12 Dec. 1991, lot 39, to: Pierpont Morgan Library.
Classification
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Department