[fol. 1r:] Incipit liber missalis ẜm choꝝ || patauiẽsem.||

Expletum est hoc opꝰ librorū || missalium pro Patauieñ eccłe || ritu:caractere iocūdissimo Au||guste impressum opera et im/||pensis Erhardi ratdolt ibide𝔷 || artis impressorie vulgatissimi || Anno salutis dñice Millesimo || ꝗngētesimoquinto.Die vero || quinto mensis Januarij.||

CCLXIIIv: 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).

Augsburg

Liturgical book

This edition is a variant of vdm 780. In each edition, the colophon is the same (dated 5 January 1505), but the preface (from bishop Wiguleus Fröschl) has been completely reset. In this edition, the preface (fol. [α]2v) is dated 6 January 1505 (“Datum in ciuitate nostra Patauieñ De anno do||minice natiuitatis.Millesimo quingentesimo quinto. die sexta || mensis Januarij”). After gathering E, CXXIIII contain propers for particular saints, material reported by the printer as being recently received. This edition includes chant for the Liber generationis.

Printing mandate from Wigileus Fröschl, bishop of Passau (*2r–v): “Datum in ciuitate nostra Patauien. De ãno dñice natiuitatꝭ Millesimo quingentesimoquinto Die quinta mensis Januarij” (preface)

In some copies (e.g. A-Su) there is a full-page woodcut with SS Valentine, Stephen and Maximilian on *2v. Some woodcut initials, particularly in canon. Canon woodcut. Some historiated initials printed in red and black.

Latin

[13], I–CXXVIII, [6], CXXXV–CCXXIIII, [16], CCXXV–CCLXIII, [1]

D-Mbs Rar. 2140

D-Mbs

multiple impression

Rotunda, Uncial

red staff lines, red initials, red text

The printer's mark, a considerable number of initials, and potentially the Agnus Dei and historiated initial 'T' in the canon, are printed in red and black. Space is (almost) always left for the large red uncial initials. The black uncial initials are printed on top of staves (or vice versa). Red double margins bound the staves to the left and the right, and the clefs and custodes are printed within these. The characteristic F-clef almost looks like a 3. The staves are constructed of segments of several widths. It often looks as if the red staves were printed over the black notes. Possibly printed in triple impression.
This edition seems to be printed as individual booklets: calendar (no page numbers), then Missale (I-CCXXIII, with inserted canon printed on vellum in the autopsy copy), then „Misse officia in vetustis & antea impressis missalibus non habentur sed in recentibus post speciale et ante commune sanctorum feriatim denuo sunt interlocata) - to be inserted (separate foliation), then Commune sanctorum (CCXXV-CCLXIII); in first part of book: staves printed across entire page (CVII ff); in second part: printed in two columns; there staff lines look different from in part one.

Hufnagel notation

full-length staff ([o1r]): 160 x 17 mm; height of virga one: 8.5 mm; height of virga two: 10.5 mm; height of virga three: 14.5 mm

The notation is clearly and carefully printed, with a full range of notational forms. Ratdolt favours using a double clef (f-c) only in the second section that contains musical notation.

chant

CVIIr–CXXVIIr: Prefaces for various feasts; CXXVIIr–CXXVIIIr: Kyrie, Gloria and Credo intonations; CXXVIIIr–CXXVIIIv: Ite missa est variants; After CCXXIIII (not foliated): two folios of music with genealogy of Christ from Matthew (Liber generationis).

*A-Su, *D-Mbs, D-Mu, D-Mu, D-Rp, F-Pbs, GB-Cu, GB-Lbl, *H-Ba, H-Bn, S-STd

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

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Proctor, Robert. An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Part II. MDI-MDXX. Section I. Germany. London: Kegan Paul, 1903 (75, 10644)