Missale ad usum ecclesie Lingonensis.

Accession number:

PML 46713

Published:

[Paris] : [Jean Du Pré (printer of Paris)], [approximately 1491]

Description:

[11], ii-vixxii, [6], vixx iii-viiixx xviii, [28] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows, 1955.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Du Pré's types 11:140G, 12:112G, 13:112G, and 14:120G.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a-h⁸ i⁶; aa-ee⁸ ff¹⁰ [2]² [3]⁴; A-G⁸; AA-CC⁸ DD⁴: 202 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts, and woodcut borders. Woodcut borders printed in red; woodcuts on leaves a1r and a8v in blue.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.6 x 22.2 cm.

Binding:

18th/19th-century French blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (32 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Missale Lingonense

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red L-brackets, yellow capital fill, and ruling lines; major initials blue on red ground with gold and white highlights. Woodcut of Crucifixion (leaf [2]/1v) stained from kissing. Annotations: Musical notations added by hand (leaves [2]/2v-[3]/4r). No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript prayers to St. Edmund and Decem milium martirum (Ten thousand martyrs), in 2 hands (front endleaf 3 verso and rear endleaf 1 recto).

Provenance:

Clevans, signature, 15th/16th century (rear endleaf 1 recto); unidentified (a pencil note identifies as Comte d'Harcourt but cannot confirm; similar but not exact to Charles Emmanuel, comte de Monceaux d'Aucy, see Guigard, Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile, II: 363) French armorial bookplate: checkered, en chief lion, crowned, supported by two lions regardant (front pastedown); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 383 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau as the gift of the Fellows, March 1955.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books