Title page:

Incipit missale ẜm choꝝ ecclesie || Brixinenẜ. […] (a1r)

Colophon:

Finit liber missalis pro vera insti||tutione et consonantia Brixineñ || ecclesie: per Erhardum ratdolt || mira imprimēdi arte qua nuper || venecijs nunc Auguste vindeli/||corū opifex solertissim̃ excellit:|| luculēter imp̃ssus: exquisita etia𝔷 || emendatione: invigilantiq̃𝔷 cura || magistri Sixti haugen revisus et || castigatus. Anno salutifere incar||nationis. Millesimo.cccc.xciij.|| xvj. vero kalenđ septembris.|| (F5v)

(F9r:) 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

The autopsy copy lacks the first folio with the title page, and its first gathering is misbound.

[6r?:] Letter by Melchior von Meckau, bishop of Bressanone.

The frontispiece portrays the patron saints of the diocese. It contains a large cut of the arms of Florian Waldauf von Waldenstein with cipher and insignia of Melchior von Meckau, bishop of Bressanone, at whose expense the book was printed, and whose letter is included at beginning, (after RELICS). Below the letter [6r?], a large coat of arms of Meckau, printed with black, red and. [6v?:] Woodcut in half page size with the holy numbers (central sun suurounded by circles with numbers and letters). Woodcut initials.

Latin

[12], I-CCXXIIII, [2]

Autopsy copy:

A-Wn Ink 31-50; further copies have to be inspected.