[a1r:] Incipit liber missalis ẜm chorum pataviēsem ||

Q2v: Opus illud librorÅ« missaliÅ« || pro Patauiensis ecclesie Ritu || impressum. opera exactum est || et expensis Erhardi Ratdolt || Auguste vindelicorÅ« impres-||sorie artis vulgatissimi Anno || salutis dñice millesimo quin-||gentesimotercio. Quinto no-||nas Martij.||

Large printer’s mark on last folio. Has a shield with a man holding two snakes, printed in red and black. Accompanying text: Erhardi Ratdolt felicia conspice signa || Testata artificem qua valet ipse manum.

Augsburg

Liturgical book

Weale-Bohatta 766 and 767 seem to be the same book; the only copy of the latter (A-KN) seems simply to have lacked the gatherings A-C at the end, just like some other copies.

2r-v: letter from bishop Wigileus Fröschl of Passau: WIgileis dei et apostolice sedis gratia episcopus Patauienẜ […] Datum in ciuitate nostra Patuieñ. De anno dominice natiuitatis Millesimo quingentesimotercio. secÅ«da feria post Gregorij pape.
3r-7v: Calendar

1v: full-page woodcut of two angels supporting the arms of bishop Wigileus Fröschl of Passau.

Latin

[11], I–CXXXIIII, [24, chant section], CXXXIIII–CXXXVII, [8], CXLVI–CCCIII, [4].

D-Mbs Rar. 1739

D-Mbs (1)

multiple impression

Uncial, Schwabacher

red staff lines, red initials, red text

Staves made up of six blocks of 22.5 mm. Music notation only on separate gatherings before the canon, signed a-d8 in the header, not at the bottom of the page. Two columns, 33, 29, 20 lines.
Ratdolt’s printer’s device is printed in red and black. In a number of instances the text underlay and the musical notation (both in black) come very close to each other, often having to give way for each other. Evidently printed in triple impression.

Hufnagel notation

full-length staff c. 133 x 16.5 mm; Height of virga one: 8.5 mm; height of virga two: 12 mm.

chant

Noted prefaces for various feasts of various ranks, and incipits for Kyries, Glorias, Credos, Ite, Benedicamus, Inclinate.

A-Kadg, A-KN, A-LIs, A-M, A-SFI, *A-Wn, D-As, *D-Mbs, *D-Mbs, GB-Cu, GB-Lbl, GB-Lbl, *H-Bu, H-Bu, H-PH, I-Mb, RUS-Mrg, US-NYcu, US-PER

Passau: Johann Petri, [1491–1492 c.], vdm: 1452

Weale, William Henry James. Bibliographia liturgica: Catalogus missalium ritus latini ab anno MCCCLXXV impressorum. Edited by Hanns Bohatta. London: Quaritch, 1928 (766, 767)
Daschner, Dominik. Die gedruckten Meßbücher Süddeutschlands bis zur Übernahme des Missale Romanum Pius V. (1570). Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1995