Graduale Romanum.

Accession number:

PML 27002

Published:

Impressum Auguste : industria et impensis Erhardi Ratdolt, [1494-1498].

Description:

[4] I-CLXXVII (with mistakes) [1] leaves ; 36.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1929.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from 1st colophon, leaf [16]/2v: Hoc opus graduale dicier vulgo solitum: p[er] maximis [et] cura [et] solicitudi[n]e M[a]g[ist]ri Sixti haug[e]n[si] reuisum [et] castigatu[m] finit foeliciter: imp[re]su[m] Auguste industria [et] impe[n]sis Erhardi ratdolt ibide[m] artis impressorie no[m]i[n]atissimi Anno christiane salutis M.cccc.lxxxxiiij.xij.kal[endas] Julij.
2nd colophon, leaf [23]/9v: Officia dominicalia sum anni circulu[m] finiunt feliciter: imp[re]ssa Auguste industria et impensis Erhardi ratdolt ibide[m] artis impressorie nomi[n]atissimi. Anno christiane salut[is]. M.cccc.xcviij xxx. die Iunij.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 7:92, 9:130G, and 12:180G.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-22⁸ 23¹⁰]: 182 leaves, leaves [1]/1-2, [16]/3-7, and [23]/10 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
In two parts, dated: I) 20 June 1494; II) 30 June 1498.
Edited by Sixtus Haug.
Printed in black and red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.3 x 23 cm.
PML copy is part I only, missing 17 leaves: [1]/1-4, [15]/1-8, and [16]/3-7 (blanks).

Binding:

19th-century (German?) gilt-tooled black morocco over paper boards (36.5 x 24.5 cm), stab-sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.

Variant Title:

Graduale

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gottschalk, Dec. 1929.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books