Incipit missale s[ecundu]m Ordinem Fratru[m] Predicatoru[m]
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[298] leaves : 17 cm (8vo) Title from incipit on a1 recto Imprint derived from colophon (N11 verso): Impressu[m] Venetijs arte et impensis Nicholai de Franckfordia, anno Domini M.cccc.lxxxiiij Signatures: pi¹⁰ ²pi⁴ a-y⁸ A-M⁸ N¹² (pi1, pi10, N12=blank) Chancery octavo; printed in red and black, double columns, b3 (i.e. fol. 25) verso: 31 lines, 115 x 73 mm; types: 74G, 74G*; printed initials and initial spaces; four-line staves printed in red, without notation For an analysis of the techniques used to print the musical staves in this edition, see Mary Kay Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (Berkeley: UC Press, 1992), 49-64 COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.1 imperfect: pi1, pi10 (both blank) wanting. Initials rubricated in blue, some with red pen flourishes into the margins. Large initial on a1 recto in interlocking red and blue. Crucifixion woodcut hand-colored. Manuscript square notation added to printed staves throughout. Leaves a1 through N11 foliated in an early/contemporary hand. Leaf dimensions: 165 x 108 mm. PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.1 with dealer's notes and codes at front and back. Early/contemporary marginal annotations. Gospel readings added in an early hand to N12 recto/verso. Sold to Wolfgang G. Scholz by E.K. Schreiber in November, 1983. Purchased from the sale of the Wolfgang G. Scholz Collection (Skinner, Inc.), July, 2019. BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.1 bound in early/contemporary blind tooled calfskin over wooden boards (rebacked). Brass catch plates on lower boards, clasps lacking. Edges gauffered. Paper manuscript waste pastedowns.
