multiple impression

Rotunda, Uncial

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

The printer's mark (H5r), 17 initials, and the Agnus Dei in the canon, are printed in red and black. Space is always left for the large red uncial initials or signa congruentiae. Red double margins bound the staves to the left and the right, and the clefs and custodes are printed within these. The staves are constructed of segments of several widths: c. 21 mm, c. 4 mm, and 9 mm. A full-length staff is made up of between 9-11 of these segments (9 being the most common number).
Printed coloured woodcut of the enthroned Virgin and Child in red, green and yellor on [*2v:].

Hufnagel notation

Measurements:

full-length staff: 165 x 16.5 mm (fol. 101r, fourth system); double margins on left and right add c. 5.5-6 mm each.
Height of virga one: 8.5 mm; height of virga two: 9 mm; height of virga three: 12 mm; height of virga four: 14 mm.

The notation is clearly and carefully printed, with a full range of notational forms. Ratdolt favours using a double clef (f-c) wherever possible.

chant

n4r-n4v: Kyrie and Gloria intonations.
n5r-o8r: solemn and ferial prefaces (Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Vigil of Easter, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Blessed Virgin Mary [preceding five solemn only], Apostles, Palm Sunday/Holy Thursday/Holy Cross, Quotidiana).
o8r-o8v: solemn and ferial Pater Nosters.
p1r: Credo incipit.

Copies:

*A-SF, D-As, D-Bkk, D-DI, D-LEdnb, *D-Mbs, *D-Mbs, D-MMs, D-NLk, D-OB, D-Rak, F-Pn, I-Mb, US-CHH, US-REspc, US-Wcro

Secondary literature:

Weale, William Henry James. Bibliographia liturgica: Catalogus missalium ritus latini ab anno MCCCLXXV impressorum. Edited by Hanns Bohatta. London: Quaritch, 1928 (18)
Duggan, Mary Kay. Printing and Reform. The Beginning of Music Printing in German-speaking Lands in the Fifteenth Century. (under review)