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Agenda parochialium ecclesiarum (a).

Basel: Michael Wenssler & Jakob von Kilchen, 1488, vdm: 1422

BASICS
Title page:

Agenda ꝑrochialiū ecclesiarū.|| […] (a1r)

Colophon:

Anno a partu virginis Millesimo || quadringētesimo octuagesimo octa||no.q̃rto idus Maij.finitum est hoc || opus preclarū et in urbe Basiliensi || feliciter elaboratū ingenio et impen⸗||sis spectabilium virorū Michaelis || Wenẜler et Jacobi de Kilchen urbis || prenominate civium.|| [printer’s mark]

Printer:
Michael Wenssler; Jakob von Kilchen
Printer's mark:

two shields hanging on a branch, the right of which has two stars (printed in red below the colophon)

Place of printing:

Basel

Year:
1488
Further information on dating: from the colophon.
Type of source:

Liturgical book

Catalogue references:
GW M12077
ISTC ia00158700
vdm
1422
Further details:

It is unclear if those copies that are not yet inspected are version (a) or (b) or a third version. So far we have detected two variant editions: variant (a) with a woodcut in the preface relating to Basel (vdm 1422) and variant (b) without woodcut but a bookstamp relating to the monastery St Gallen (vdm 1567). The two version differ also in the colophon.

Paratexts:

Fol. [1r-v]: Prefatio by the Bishop of Basel: "Informatorium sacerdotum de agendis […]".

Illustrations:

Various types of elaborate red and black woodcut initials; a woodcut on fol. [1v] with the Bishop of Basel (ev. Caspar von Mühlhausen) coat of arms.

Language:

Latin; High German

Confessional identity:
Roman Catholic
Format:
2º
Printed area: 120 x 223 mm (text page b1r), 137 x 225 mm (music page k2r)
Number of leaves:
170
Collation: [1], a-d8, e6, f10, music part: [1], a9, b8-p8
Autopsy copy:

D-Tu Gb 834.2. More copies have to be inspected.

Online facsimile:

CH-Zz, CH-Bu


CH-Bu AN VIII 48, a1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

multiple impression

Text font:

Textura, Uncial

Colour printing:

red initials, red staff lines, red text

Remarks on printing:

The pages are framed with double margins to the left and right, in which the clefs and custodes are printed, and a single margin at the bottom.

Notation:

Hufnagel notation

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

full-length staff: a. 124 x 17 mm (a1r); height of virga 8 mm.

Genre:

chant

Repertoire:

Chants for Candlemas, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday vigil, vigil of Pentecost.
The litany appears twice. The first litany (f. d8) follows the seven penitential psalms in the Visitation of the Sick and includes such saints as Alban, Christopher, Oswald, George, Nicolas, Ludwig, Conrad, Gall, Udalricus, Othmar, Katerina, Otilia, Afra, and Ursula cum sodalibus tuis. The second litany, for processions (ff. 2c3-2c6v), adds Timothy, Eustacius cum sociis, Linos, Cletus, Clemens, Sixtus, Erasmus, Erhard, Policarp, Fridoline, Wolfgang, Henry, Egidius. Kunnegundis, Perpetua, Tecla, Margareta, and Juliana and omits Othmar, Conrad, Gall, Ludwig, Thathee, and Verena. The service for Baptism (f. b1-b2v) includes vernacular (German) text.

Music is only present in the second part of the book, which is separated from the previous part by a blank leaf.

Copies:

A-BRz, A-Gf, *CH-SO, *CH-Zz, D-MCH, F-CO, *CH-Bu, *D-Tu, *GB-Lbl

Related editions:

Agenda parochialium ecclesiarum (b).

Basel: Michael Wenssler & Jakob von Kilchen, 1488, vdm: 1567

Secondary literature:

Duggan, Mary Kay. Printing and Reform. The Beginning of Music Printing in German-speaking Lands in the Fifteenth Century. (under review)


CH-Bu AN VIII 48, a1r
COPIES
A-BRz (Bregenz, Bibliothek der Zisterzienserabtei Wettingen-Mehrerau)
A-Gf (Graz, Zentralbibliothek der Wiener Franziskanerprovinz)
CH-SO (Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Rar I 93
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: blind-stamped pigskin over wood, 2 clasps, restored 1952
CH-Zz (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Rb 58: c
Condition:

Worming throughout.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: White leather on wood; two metal clasps.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

A number of handwritten annotations throughout.

Provenance:

The copy was held in the library of the Rheinau Abbey, see the inscription on fol. [1]r: "Sum M[o]n[aste]rij Rheinaw".

Link to online scan:

CH-Zz

D-MCH (Maria Laach, Benediktinerabtei, Bibliothek)
F-CO (Colmar, Bibliothèque municipale)
CH-Bu (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel)
Shelfmark: A N VIII 48
Condition:

Imperfect: lacks last folio (replaced with a modern copy from another edition); some worming throughout.

Comments:

Imperfect.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Blind-embossed leather over wood with stamping. Two clasps. From the Basel workshop of Jakob Spindler (the cover contains the labels "iocob", i.e. Jacob Spidler).
Provenance:

An exchange with the Central Library of Zürich in 1940, see the stamp of the Central Library of Zürich and manuscript remarks: "In Tausch abgegeben an UB Basel, s. Prof. der Bibl.-Komm.v.30.IV.40" (front cover) and "Von der Zentralbibliothek Zürich erworben im Austausch gegen die Protokolle der Zürcher Wohlgesinnten Gesellschaft: Mist. [?] H 42 a - l. Beschluss des Regierensratus vom 23. Juli 1940" (back cover).

Link to online scan:

CH-Bu

D-Tu (Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Gb 834.2
Condition:

shiny white paper

Comments:

INKA 17001457

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Blind-embossed leather over wood with stamping. Two clasps. From the Basel workshop of Jakob Spindler.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Marginalia from the sixteenth or seventeenth century.

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: IB.37136a
Condition:

Imperfect. Lacks ff. 2a4-2a6 and the most sheets of 2d.

Comments:

Imperfect, wanting the inmost sheet of quire 2nd a, and the 2 inmost sheets of 2nd d. Without the woodcut on a1v. Acquisition 1918, not in BMC (after ISTC)

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Provenance:

Ex libris of Henry Littleton. Acquired 1918.