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Agenda parochialium ecclesiarum (b).

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

BASICS
Title page:

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

Colophon:

Anno a partu virginis Millesimo || quadringētesimo octuagesimo octa||uo quarto Idus Maij finitū est hoc || opus preclarū et in urbe Basiliensi fe||liciter elaboratū ingenio et impensis || spectabilium virorū Michaeł wenẜ||ler et Jacobi de Kilchen urbis preno||minate civium.|| [printer’s mark]

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

Printed in red beneath the colophon: two shields hanging on a branch, the right of which has two stars.

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
1567
Further details:

It is unclear if those copies from vdm 1422 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 "Informatoriū sacerdotū de agendis circa confe⸗||ctionē […]".

Language:

Latin

Confessional identity:
Roman Catholic
Format:
2º
Printed area: 125 x c. 230 mm (text page), 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:

CH-SGs Ink 468


CH-SGs Inc. 468, fol. 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:

*CH-SGs, *GB-Lbl

Related editions:

Agenda parochialium ecclesiarum (a).

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

Secondary literature:

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


CH-SGs Ink. 468, fol. p8v
COPIES
CH-SGs (St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Inc. 468
Condition:

Imperfect, lacks two folios (a8 and[1] are cut out).

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: leather on wood, two metal clasps. From the Basel workshop of Jakob Spindler (the cover contains the labels "iocob", i.e. Jacob Spidler).
Manuscript additions or corrections:

two comprehensive additions in the text part of the book.

Provenance:

Book stamp of Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee (1503-1564) at the end of the preface and before the music section. Blarer was abbot of St Gallen in the years 1530-64.

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.