Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]; a-m⁸ n¹⁰ [o-p⁸ q-r⁶] s-z⁸ A-H⁸ I⁶ K¹⁰: 276 leaves, leaves [2]/6 and K10 blank.
Commissioned by Christoph von Schachner, Bishop of Passau, 4 June 1493.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.1 x 22.3 cm
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [2]/1.6 and K10, and leaf z3 with bottom corner torn away, repaired.
PML copy with canon (quire [r]) printed on vellum, with red index tabs.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 9:130G and 11:230G.
Ratdolt's device on leaf K9v.
Title from colophon (leaf K6r): Expletu[m] e[st] hoc op[us] libro[rum] missaliu[m] pro Patavien[se] eccl[esi]e ritu: p[er] vigili cura m[a]g[ist]ri Sixti hauge[n] revisum et castigatu[m]: atq[ue] caractere iucu[n]dissimo Auguste impressum opera et impe[n]sis Erhardi ratdolt ibidem artis imp[re]ssorie vulgatissimi. Anno salutis d[omi]nice Millesimo quadri[n]gentesimo Nonagesimoq[ua]rto Die .xxi. Januarii.
Woodcuts. Woodcuts of Saints Valetinus, Stephanus, and Maximilianus (leaf [1]/1v) and Crucifixion at canon (leaf [r]/1v) by Hans Burgkmair. Woodcuts and woodcut initials colored by printed stencil.
Missale Pataviense
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Some marginal notations and feast days added to calendar: April 8 translation of St. Dionysius ("translacio s[an]cti dionisii ep[iscop]i et m[arty]ris h[uius] patron[us]"), 17 November St. Florian ("Florini confes. patroni fabrorum"); notations below Crucifixion woodcut (leaf [r]/1v) and partially torn away (leaf z3v).