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Incipit officium misse.

Accession number
PML 27006
Object title

Incipit officium misse.

Published

Impressum in inclita ciuitate Magdeburgensi : per magistrum Albertum raue[n]sten et Iaochim westual, Anno d[omi]ni. M.CCCClxxxviij. Tertia feria post Lucie [16 December 1483]

Description

[26] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1929.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint and date from colophon, which reads in full: Explicit officiu[m] misse Impressum in inclita ciuitate Magdeburgensi per magistrum Albertum raue[n]sten et Iaochim westual. Anno d[omi]ni. M.CCCClxxxviij. Tertia feria post Lucie.
Printed in Ravenstein and Westphal's type 1:92G.
Signatures: a-c⁶ d⁸: 26 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 column, 33 lines. Initial spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.7 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin.
Variant title
Officium misse
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in two German hands. Contemporary inscriptions at beginning and end of each quire indicate that this copy was previously bound out of order.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal, Dec. 1929.
Classification
Century
Department