Title from ISTC.
For the date and printer, and also an account of earlier identifications and ascriptions, see Stevenson, The problem of the Missale speciale (London, 1967).
Printed in the Printer of the Missale Speciale type 1:232G.
Falsely ascribed as a missal for Constance use, but rather contains special readings for Sunday and feasts masses for the diocese of Basel.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰; 8-9¹⁰; 10⁶; 11-12¹⁰; 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸; 17⁸; 18-20¹⁰]: 192 leaves, leaves [1]/5, [4]/3, [9]/8-10, [12]/10, [17]/6-8, and [20]/9-10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed rubrics in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [20]/7 (i.e., leaf "189").
Watermark: leaf 53. Bull's head surmounted by Tau. Watermark, beta radiograph, page 53. Bull's head, tau, bar. 134999wm_PML_45545_leaf53_WM_Beta.jpg
Constance missal
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards, red capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary foliation and added tituli in index (foliation in same hand as PML 79589). Many blank leaves have additional liturgical texts in late fifteenth-century hand, including: dedication of a church to John the Baptist (leaf [4]/7r), texts related to feasts of Sts. Ulrich (leaf [7]/10v), 10,000 Martyrs (leaf [9]/9r), Onofrius (leaf [12]/9v), Wolfgang (leaf [12]/9v), Beheading of John the Baptist (leaf [17]/6r), Barbara (leaf [17]/8v), and Dorothy (leaf [17]/9v), and many texts to the Virgin Mary. Leather tabs at individual feasts.