Incipit tabula huius missalis impressi secu[n]du[m] usum archiep[isco]patus lugdunen[se] civis ordo sequit[ur] et est talis.

Accession number:

PML 48317

Published:

Lugdunensis : Johannem Alemanum de Magontia, M.cccc.lxxxvi [1487].

Description:

[10], i-Cxxvii, [24], Cxxxi-CCCxxvii, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 34.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1957.

Notes:

Title from tabula incipit, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r7v: ... lugd[unensis] i[m]pressu[m] p[er] m[a]g[ist]r[u]m Jo[hannem] alemanu[m] d[e] magontia i[m]pressore[m] feliciter finit[ur]. Sub a[n]no incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice M.cccc.lxxxvii Regnante [Christ]ianissimo Rege n[ost]ro karolo Anno regni sui quarto.
Printed in Neumeister's types 5:145G and 8:312G (and two small types, sometimes also 145G, used for signatures).
Signatures: [1]⁸; a-p⁸ pp⁸; i⁸ ii⁴ [2]¹²; q-z⁸; ²a-z⁸: 362 leaves, leaves [1]/1, pp8, [2]/12 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Printed in black and red, some initials and signatures printed in red.
Woodcuts of Crucifixion and God the Father (leaves ii4v and [2]/1r) and armorial of Charles de Bourbon, Archbishop of Lyon printed in red (leaf ²z8r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.5 x 23.2 cm.

Binding:

Lyon, early-16th century blind-rolled calf over wooden boards (34 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports, one roll signed I. B. (i.e. J. B; see Weale, p. 23, no. 114 and p. 212, no. 482); with extensive repairs to back and edges. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; braided endbands.

Variant Title:

Title in ISTC: Missale Lugdunense (Lyons)

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials. Music staves unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Lyon, Bibliotheque de la Ville, armorial and deaccession stamps (leaf [1]/2r) and spine labels: Incunables/423/Pellechet and Incunables/399/Inventaire; Joseph Baer & Co., 12. Jahrgang 1914, Neue Folge 1, Heft 2/3, no. 467 for 4000 marks; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, with the assistance of the Fellows, Jan. 1957.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books