multiple impression

Rotunda, Uncial, Textura

multicoloured print, red initials, red staff lines, red text

The printer's mark (fol. 73v) and one initial (fols. 1r) are printed in red and black. The woodcut of the bishop on [*2r] appears to have been printed in black, red, and yellow. Space is always left for the large red uncial initials, which start new pieces or important sections of chant. No space is left for the black textura initials, which usually start verses. A blind impression of a string of capital X's appears at the bottom of b2. The staves are constructed of segments of several widths: 4 mm, 6.5 mm, and c. 2o.5 mm. A full-length staff is made up of between 6-7 of these segments.

Hufnagel notation

Measurements:

full-length staff: 113 x 16.5 mm (b4r, second system).
Height of virga one: 8.5 mm; height of virga two: 9 mm; height of virga three: 12 mm.

The notation is clearly and carefully printed, with a full range of notational forms. Ratdolt uses a wider variety of clefs in this edition than he does in his other prints.

chant, hymn

Chants and hymns for various ceremonies carried out by the priest and not contained in the missal.

Copies:

A-Imf, A-Iu, A-Imf, A-Iu, A-Iw, A-SPL, A-Wn, D-Bkk, *D-Mbs, A-BRz, GB-Lbl, H-Bu, I-BREs, I-BREs, US-Wcr

Secondary literature:

Meyer-Baer, Kathi. Liturgical music incunabula: a descriptive catalogue. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1962 (no. 14.)