Missale Moguntinum (Mainz).

Accession number: 
PML 21106
Published: 
Impressus Basilee : per ... Michaelem Wenszler, millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimooctauo [1488].
Description: 
[14], I-CIIII, [22], CV-CCLXXXIIII [1] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 36.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, printed in red, leaf mm9v: Explicitus est liber missalis bene visus: [et] optima diligentia imp[re]ssus Basilee p[er] p[ro]uidu[m] uiru[m] Michaele[m] wenszler. Anno d[omi]ni millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo octuagesimooctauo.
Printed in Wenssler's types 12:304G, 13:158G, and 14:158G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]; a¹⁰ b-m⁸ n⁶; [3¹⁰ 4¹²]; o-kk⁸ ll-mm¹⁰: 320 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and mm10 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Woodcut Crucifixion, leaf [3]/1v.
Printed in black and red throughout.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35 x 22.6 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/ and mm10 (blanks).

Binding: 
Contemporary German/Swiss blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (36.5 x 25.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. [Tools not identified in EBDB.] Plain paper pastedowns (renewed?); decorative endbands. 2 pin/tab clasps, metal bosses and corner pieces. Fore edge tabs.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Missale Moguntinense

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Musical staves and notation unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. A few notations in the same hand: "S. Iohannes babisla(?) patron [?] der kapell [?] littermund [Litermont, Germany?], 1715" (leaves d8r, and bb6r), and "[illegible] 1751" (leaf [1]/1r).

Provenance: 
John Gott (1830-1906), Bishop of Truro, purchase inscription: "Rome, 1865", some of this collection sold through Sotheran, 1907 (prior to Sotheby's 20 March 1908 sale); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel, notes and price code: [upsilon gamma eta], purchased April 1907 (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3476, to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Aug. 1920.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books