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Missale abbreviatum (MS M.1243).

Accession number
MS M.1243
Object title
Missale abbreviatum (MS M.1243).
Created
Ulm, Germany, ca. 1500
Binding
German (Ulm), 15th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (210 x 158 mm), sewn on 3 supports by the Augustinians of Ulm (EBDB w000059/Kyriss 33 as Ulm Augustiner-Chorherrenstift I, active 1477-1531).
Credit line
Gift of William M. Voelkle on the occasion of the Morgan's Centennial, 2023.
Description
316 folios (1 column, 21 lines), bound : paper ; 210 x 158 (140 x 87) mm
Provenance
Library of Alfred Mewett, Cleveland School of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (De Ricci, II, 1937, 1956, no. 22); New York, Swann Galleries, 27 October 1983, lot 228; bought by William M. Voelkle.
Notes
Title from label added to the spine in the 18th century; phrase repeated by De Ricci 1937.
Contents: Temporale, various votive Masses, and a select Sanctorale.
Collation: a¹⁴ b-n¹² o¹⁶ p-t¹² x¹⁶ y⁸ z¹⁰ 2a-2c¹² = 316 folios
This unilluminated Missal provides an instructive juxtaposition with the department's deluxe examples.
Script
later German Cursive (German Cursiva)
Language
Latin
Century
Classification