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Missale Strigoniense (Esztergom).

Accession number
PML 46497
Object title

Missale Strigoniense (Esztergom).

Published

In imperiali ciuitate germanie Nurenberga : per Anthonium Koburger, .M.cccclxxxiiii. die ultima mensis Augusti [31 August 1484].

Description

[12], I-CXCI, [9] leaves (with mistakes) : illustration (woodcut) ; 42 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1954.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [2]/3r: Incipit missale diuinoru[m] officio[rum] tam de t[em]p[or]e q[uam] etiam de sanctis cu[m] certis officiis annexis.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [27]/9v: Finit missale diuino[rum] officio[rum] tam de t[em]p[or]e q[uam] de sanctis cu[m] certis officiis annexis: utputa de tra[n]sfigurat[i]one d[omi]ni. de pestile[n]tia [et]cetera. s[e]c[un]d[u]m cho[rum] alme ecclesie Strigonien[sis] correctu[m] ac eme[n]datu[m] de consensu ac sauore Reueredissimi in [christ]o patris ac domini, dom[in]i Michael[is] ep[iscop]i Milkouiensis. ac in pontificalib[us] vicarii general[is] p[ro]nominate eccl[es]ie Strigoniensis. alioru[m]q[ue] domi[n]o[rum] de capitulo. regnante felicissime serenissimo ac inuictissimo Mathia hungaroru[m] rege domino nostro gratiosissimo Anno incarnate deitatis .M.cccclxxxiiii. die ultima me[n]sis Augusti. i[n] imp[er]iali ciuitate germanie Nurenberga. p[er] Anthonium Koburger incolam prefate ciuitatis. Ad laudem dei eiusq[ue] genitricis p[er]petue virg[in]is, cui honor [et] gloria i[n] euum Amen.
Printed in Koberger's types 26:145G, 27:280G, and 28:145G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-11⁸ 12-13⁶ 14-26⁸ 27¹⁰]: 216 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [27]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Rubrics, foliation, and some initials printed in red. Spaces left blank for music.
Woodcut of Crucifixion at canon of the mass.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.4 x 28 cm.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (42 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports, probably bound by Franz Staindorffer in Nuremberg (EBDB w000312/Kyriss 65, active 1474-1486) or the Ornamentale Blüte I workshop (also known as Böhmischer Meister, EBDB w000358/Kyriss 115). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; single endbands. 2 clasps, with cornerpieces and center bosses. Fore-edge tabs.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials (some red initials are printed), red capital strokes; primary initials illuminated in Koberger-shop style. Music unrealized. Crucifixion woodcut hand colored. Annotations: Multiple textual additions throughout, including text with musical notations. Modern pencil inscription referring to Matthias Corvinus(?): "1484 - Matyas Kiraly Korabol" (front endleaf 1 recto).
Provenance
Michael Körmend, donation inscription to church in Pressburg (i.e. Bratislava): "Liber eccl[es]ie posonien[sis] empt[us] p[er] hon[orabi]le q[oun]dam d[om]ini Mich[ae]lem de Kurmendt cano[n]icis dicte eccl[es]ie" (front pastedown) and "1487. Iste liber est empt[us] p[er] Mich[ae]lem Kuremend in die S. [?] domini 9 f[lorens] (also cited as S. Ieronimi confessoris, rear pastedown), to: Bratislava, St. Martin's Church, chapter library (cited in Ortvay, Geschichte der Stadt Pressburg: Beilagen zur Geschichte Pressburgs in der Zeit von 1300-1526 (1894)); Albi Rosenthal (dealer), cats. of June 1950 and Dec. 1951; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Otto Ranschburg as a gift of the Fellows, 1954.
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