Title page:

Incipit liber missalis scd𝔷 cho⸗||rum patauiensem. Dñica pri⸗||ma in aduentu dñi officium.|| (a1r).

Colophon:

Expletum est hoc opus libro-||rum missalium pro Patauieñ. || ecclesie ritu:caractere iucundis||simo Auguste impressum ope-||ra & impensis Erhardi ratdolt || ibidem artis impressorie vulga||tissimi. Anno salutis dominice || Millesimo quadringentesimo || Nonagesimooctauo.Quarto || nonas decembris.|| (fol. K6r)

K9v: 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 mantling 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

Cost: 4 1/2 rheinische Gulden (RELICS).

[α]2r–v: letter from bishop Christoph von Schachner, explaining the reasons for this new edition, dated De anno dñice natiuitatis Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimooctauo secunda feria post Floriani.

[α]1v: woodcut of three saints (Valentine, Stephen, Maximilian), printed in five colours (black, red, ochre, Prussian blue, green-brown), with arms of Christoph von Schachner as bishop of Passau (red lion passant of Passau and black mountain goat couped); woodcut attributed to Hans Burgkmair. This woodcut was already used in the 1494 edition of the Missale Pataviense (vdm 1081).
[β]1v: woodcut chart for determining dominical number.
r1v: canon woodcut (different from that in 1494 edition).
r2r: large T-initial for Te igitur, with foliage pattern; the T and frame are printed in red.
r4v: Agnus Dei woodcut.
Woodcut initials throughout the book, with foliage pattern and black-red printing.

Latin

[14], 261, [1]

Autopsy copy:

A-M P.138

D-Mbs