vdm16 
[Missale Brixinense].

Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1493, vdm: 1078

BASICS
Title page:

Incipit missale ẜm choꝝ ecclesie || Brixinenẜ. […] (a1r)

Colophon:

Finit liber missalis pro vera insti||tutione et consonantia Brixineñ || ecclesie: per Erhardum ratdolt || mira imprimēdi arte qua nuper || venecijs nunc Auguste vindeli/||corū opifex solertissim̃ excellit:|| luculēter imp̃ssus: exquisita etia𝔷 || emendatione: invigilantiq̃𝔷 cura || magistri Sixti haugen revisus et || castigatus. Anno salutifere incar||nationis. Millesimo.cccc.xciij.|| xvj. vero kalenđ septembris.|| (F5v)

Editor: Sixtus Haug
Printer:
Erhard Ratdolt
Printer's mark:

(F9r:) A shield upon which a naked man holds a star over his stomach and genitals with his left hand. In his right hand he holds two snakes aloft. The shield is topped with a helmet with fronds cascading down. There are two large horns on top of the helmet, between which is a six-pointed star. Above this is printed the couplet, “Erhardi Ratdolt felicia conspice signa || Testata artificem qua valet ipse manum.||” The printer's mark is printed in black and red (c. 103 x 140 mm).

Place of printing:

Augsburg

Year:
1493
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Liturgical book

Catalogue references:
GW M24292
ISTC im00653000
vdm
1078
Further details:

The autopsy copy lacks the first folio with the title page, and its first gathering is misbound.


Further contributors: Melchior von Meckau
Paratexts:

[6r?:] Letter by Melchior von Meckau, bishop of Bressanone.

Illustrations:

The frontispiece portrays the patron saints of the diocese. It contains a large cut of the arms of Florian Waldauf von Waldenstein with cipher and insignia of Melchior von Meckau, bishop of Bressanone, at whose expense the book was printed, and whose letter is included at beginning, (after RELICS). Below the letter [6r?], a large coat of arms of Meckau, printed with black, red and. [6v?:] Woodcut in half page size with the holy numbers (central sun suurounded by circles with numbers and letters). Woodcut initials.


Language:

Latin

Confessional identity:
Roman Catholic
Liturgical use: Bressanone / Brixen
Format:
Printed area: 147 x 245 mm (a1r)
Number of leaves:
236
Collation: [12?], a-n8, o-p6, music section: q8, [r4], [1]; Canon: s6; t-z8, A-E8, F10 (last three pages blank).
Original foliation:

[12], I-CCXXIIII, [2]

Autopsy copy:

A-Wn Ink 31-50; further copies have to be inspected.


DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

multiple impression

Text font:

Fraktur

Colour printing:

multicoloured print, red initials, red staff lines, red text

Remarks on printing:

Coats of arms below the letter are colour printed in red and yellow, the woodcut initials throughout the texts and the printer's sign are colour printed in red.


Notation:

Hufnagel notation

Number of staff lines:
4
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

full-lenght staff: 145 x 17 mm, height of virga 9 mm or 15 mm.


Genre:

chant

Repertoire:

Kyrie, Gloria and Credo intonations (q1r-2v), prefaces for several feasts (q3r-[r]4v); Pater noster and Pax domini (in the Canon).


Copies:

A-Gd, A-Iu, A-Iu, A-Iu, A-Iw, A-Kadg, *A-Ssp, A-SW, *A-Wn, A-Wn, D-LEdnb, F-Pn, GB-CHc, GB-Cu, GB-Lbl, I-BRE, I-BRE, I-Mb, US-Cn, US-NYp, US-NYpm

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was present in the library of Joseph Müller.

Related editions:

[Missale Brixinense].

Basel: Jakob Wolff, 1511, vdm: 686


Secondary literature:

Katalog der musikalischen Bibliothek des verstorbenen Dr. Joseph Müller Bibliothekar der Königl. Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin. … Die Versteigerung … findet am Montag den 4. Dezember 1882 und folgende Tage … statt. 2 vols. (Berlin: Leo Liepmannssohn, 1882) (II, nº 405)

COPIES
A-Gd (Graz, Bibliothek des Bischöflichen Ordinariats)
Shelfmark: Lazaristenbibliothek, L 226/2
Condition:

Fragment: fol. 2 only, used as a pastedown in GW 5808 (Bustis, Bernardinus de: Rosarium sermonum. Mit Beig. von Illuminatus Novariensis und Samuel Cassinensis. Hagenau: Heinrich Gran für Johann Rynman, 1500).


A-Iu (Innsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
Comments:

Formerly in Hall in Tirol, Stadtmuseum, Waldaufsche Stiftung (A-HALst).


A-Iu (Innsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 100.E.7
Condition:

Imperfect.


A-Iu (Innsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 156.B.9
Condition:

Imperfect.


A-Iw (Innsbruck, Prämonstratenser-Chorherrenstift Wilten, Archiv und Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: Ink 00 02 10

A-Kadg (Klagenfurt, Archiv der Diözese Gurk)

A-Ssp (Salzburg, Erzabtei St. Peter)
Shelfmark: 779
Condition:

Imperfect. Missing canon and a number of gathering at the end. Some pages have been restored.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown marbled card binding whith leather spine and corners.

A-SW (Schwaz, Franziskanerkloster, Bibliothek und Konventarchiv)
Shelfmark: S4/5-240

A-Wn (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Ink 31-50
Condition:

Titel page is missing. The leaf with the letter by the bishop is bound between the calendar pages of October and November. Extra leaf between music section and Canon (with printed verso: Finito offertorio dicat). Leaf F1 is replaced by two manuscript leaves, the following Roman folio numbers are corrected accordingly in adding "I" by hand. Several paper restaurations.

Comments:

imperfect; Canon in vellum.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: marbled cardboard with leather spine and yellow tail band. The pages are heavily trimmed, with green speckled edge.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Comprehensive additions between the music sections and the Canon, and as replacement of fol. F1. A larger handwritten passage below the printer's mark on the last printed page of the book.

Provenance:

On the calendar page of January: "Ex libris D. Petri Pfisterj Sacellarii apud Divinum Paulum Constantia me iure tenet. 8[?]. Ecclesia S. Paul", decorations and additions in red. Another inscription by another hand on the same page, hard to read: ("Hoc missali nemo notati nisi ..."). On bottom of the same page a small crown with the letters "FID.C" and a round stamp with a crown and the letters "F.I", both printed on the paper of the restored part of the leaf.


A-Wn (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Ink 20.A.5
Condition:

Imperfect: lacking two leaves at the end.


D-LEdnb (Leipzig, Deutsches Schrift- und Buchmuseum)
Shelfmark: Bö-Ink 117
Condition:

One leaf only (fol. 2), vellum.

Comments:

INKA 44000912.


F-Pn (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Condition:

Imperfect. Canon on vellum.


GB-CHc (Chichester, Cathedral)
Condition:

Imperfect.


GB-Cu (Cambridge, Cambridge University Library)
Condition:

Imperfect.


GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: IB.6740

I-BRE (Bressanone, Biblioteca del Seminario vescovile Vinzentinum)

I-BRE (Bressanone, Biblioteca del Seminario vescovile Vinzentinum)

I-Mb (Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense)
Shelfmark: Inc. Gerli 26
Condition:

Imperfect: last two fols. missing.


US-Cn (Chicago, IL, The Newberry Library)
Shelfmark: Inc. +1900
Condition:

Imperfect: lacks 10 fols.


US-NYp (New York, NY, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Music Division)
Shelfmark: Spencer Coll. Ger 1493 M 561
Condition:

Imperfect: lacks two fols.


US-NYpm (New York, NY, The Morgan Library & Museum)
Shelfmark: ChLff 383/17601
Condition:

Imperfect: last blank missing. Vellum.