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Ordinarius praemonstratensis ecclesie.

Accession number
PML 19176.1
Object title

Ordinarius praemonstratensis ecclesie.

Published

[Lübeck] : [Matthaeus Brandis], [about 1485]

Description

[50] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Calendar on leaves [1]/1-6.
Collation: [1-3¹² 4¹⁴]: 50 leaves, leaf [4]/14 blank.
Explicit (leaf [4]/13v): Explicit ordinarius ordinis premonstrate[n]sis. de vero exe[m]plari ecclesie premonstrate[n]sis impressus.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.2 cm
Printed in Brandis's types 155 (heading) and 98 (text) (see BMC II 555, IB. 9935, edition of "not after 1483;" ISTC io00086000).
Printing also attributed to Simon Koch in Magdeburg "not after 1483" (GW).
Text begins (leaf [1]/1r, Calendar): "Januarius habet dies xxxi lunam xxx ...;" (leaf [1]/7r): "Incipit prologus in ordinario premonstratensi. / [O]Rdine[m] annualis officii ..."
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/2r): Incipit ordinarius premonstratensis ecclesie.
Binding
16th-century Austrian(?) blind-rolled pigskin over reverse-beveled wooden boards (30.4 x 21 cm), on 4 double bands. Stamping includes Virtue roll: "SPES," "FIDES," "IVSTICI," and "CARITAS" (not in Haebler or EBDB). Central stamp with Melk Abbey coat-of-arms and inscription "ILAMS," stained black. Two clasps with dart catchplates, wanting. Primary wound endbands. Plain paper pastedown at rear, bare wood in front; edges stained red.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: rubrication and music unrealized. Annotations: "Fol: 1." on leaf [1]/7r and minimal contemporary notations on leaf [1]/11. Ink inscriptions on top board smudged and illegible. Parchment tabs sewn onto 3 folios.
Provenance
Melk Abbey, Austria, armorial binding and shelf mark: A C (on spine); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Karl W. Hiersemann, 1911.
Classification
Century
Department