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Agenda sive Exequiale.

[Strasbourg]: [Johann Prüss the Elder], [1500 c.], vdm: 931

BASICS
Title page:

Agenda siue Exequiale Di||uinorum sacramentorum.||

Printer:
[Johann Prüss the Elder]
Place of printing:

[Strasbourg]

Year:
[1500 c.]
Further information on dating: from GW
Type of source:

Liturgical book

Catalogue references:
GW 457
ISTC ia00158200
vdm
931
Paratexts:

[1]v-[2]r: Tabula contentorum (Register)

Language:

Latin

Confessional identity:
Roman Catholic
Format:
4º
Printed area: 115 x 199 mm (b1r)
Number of leaves:
87
Collation: (2) 3 (6), a9, b-d8, e4, f-i8, k6, l6 (last leaf blank)
Original foliation:

I-LXXX (several misprints)

Autopsy copy:

D-DS Inc. III 212/1 (imperfect), supplemented by the scan from D-FRu

Online facsimile:

D-FRu


D-Fru Ink. 4.O 7453, [1]r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

multiple impression

Text font:

Textura

Colour printing:

red initials, red staff lines, red text

Remarks on printing:

The 2-forme technique for 2-color printing of music is visible through an error (f. d8) on which the red staves mistakenly end and rubrics begin, causing the black notes of the second forme to print over words rather than on a staff.

Notation:

Hufnagel notation

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

full-length staff: 105 x 13 mm, virga 6 mm.

Comments on notation:

Music pages: c6v-c7 c8v-d1 d5-f4v f8-h1 h3 k5v-k7v

Genre:

chant

Copies:

A-BRz, *CH-FF, D-ASsb, *D-DS, D-EFd, D-FRu, D-ROTTp, V-CVbav

Secondary literature:

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


D-Fru Ink. 4.O 7453, c6v
COPIES
A-BRz (Bregenz, Bibliothek der Zisterzienserabtei Wettingen-Mehrerau)
Shelfmark: W 11 ag
Comments:

INKA 41000002

CH-FF (Frauenfeld, Thurgauische Kantonsbibliothek)
Condition:

Variant, f. a1: Exequiale pro ecclesijs parrochialibus.diocesis Curienses feliciter incipit

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: blind-stamped leather over wood, 2 clasps (restored 1982)
Provenance:

Biblioteca Barberina

D-ASsb (Aschaffenburg, Schloß Johannisburg, Stiftsbibliothek)
D-DS (Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Inc. III 212/1
Condition:

Remnants of the title page are glued on a new leaf. Lacks folios [2]-[6] and the last blank leaf [87]. Paper restored, water stains.

Comments:

imperfect

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: brown cardboard
Provenance:

stamp on the verso of the restored title page: Grossherzoglich Hessische Hofbibliothek.

D-EFd (Erfurt, Bistumsarchiv, Domarchiv)
D-FRu (Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Ink. 4.O 7453
Provenance:

inscription on top of the title page: "ad Collegium Sapientia".

Link to online scan:

D-FRu

D-ROTTp (Rottenburg am Neckar, Bischöfliches Priesterseminar)
V-CVbav (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)