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Creator:
Catholic Church
Title(s):
[Missale Romanum]
Additional Title(s):
Missal. 1498
Published/Created:
[Venice] : [Johannes Emericus de Spira for Lucantonio Giunta], [15 Oct., 1498]
Physical Description:
ccxl leaves : music ; 17 cm (8to)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0861
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 1972 252: For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Title and imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.
32 sheets of North Italian paper watermarked with bull's head surmounted by crown, printed in red and black throughout.
35 lines in 2 columns, headline in red, Canon in 25 lines, one column; Gothic letter in black and red; black musical notations on red printed staves.
Full-page woodcut by Venetian artist (Essling crucifixion cut VII), appearing for first time in this missal. Two-quarter woodcut border of Renaisance ornament on incipit-page. Publisher's device on title page printed in red (inked over in black by hand). Red-printed Lombards. White-on-black woodcut intials, many historiated.
The only incunable Missal published by Giunta in octavo format.
Incunabula short title catalogue, im00714000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M714
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 11414*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M24033
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, page 541
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0861: Imperfect: leaf CIX, with woodcut of Christ on the Cross with Mary and St. John. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Arrivabene, Pietro, active approximately 1498–1511, editor.
Emerich, Johann, active 1487–1506, printer.
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