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Agenda parochialium ecclesiarum (a).

Basel: Michael Wenssler & Jakob von Kilchen, 1488, vdm: 1422

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Title page:

Agenda ꝑrochialiū ecclesiarū.|| […] (a1r)

Colophon:

Anno a partu virginis Millesimo || quadringētesimo octuagesimo octa||no.q̃rto idus Maij.finitum est hoc || opus preclarū et in urbe Basiliensi || feliciter elaboratū ingenio et impen⸗||sis spectabilium virorū Michaelis || Wenẜler et Jacobi de Kilchen urbis || prenominate civium.|| [printer’s mark]

Printer:
Michael Wenssler; Jakob von Kilchen
Printer's mark:

two shields hanging on a branch, the right of which has two stars (printed in red below the colophon)

Place of printing:

Basel

Year:
1488
Further information on dating: from the colophon.
Type of source:

Liturgical book

Catalogue references:
GW M12077
ISTC ia00158700
vdm
1422
Further details:

It is unclear if those copies that are not yet inspected are version (a) or (b) or a third version. So far we have detected two variant editions: variant (a) with a woodcut in the preface relating to Basel (vdm 1422) and variant (b) without woodcut but a bookstamp relating to the monastery St Gallen (vdm 1567). The two version differ also in the colophon.


Paratexts:

Fol. [1r-v]: Prefatio by the Bishop of Basel: "Informatorium sacerdotum de agendis […]".

Illustrations:

Various types of elaborate red and black woodcut initials; a woodcut on fol. [1v] with the Bishop of Basel (ev. Caspar von Mühlhausen) coat of arms.


Language:

Latin; High German

Confessional identity:
Roman Catholic
Format:
Printed area: 120 x 223 mm (text page b1r), 137 x 225 mm (music page k2r)
Number of leaves:
170
Collation: [1], a-d8, e6, f10, music part: [1], a9, b8-p8
Autopsy copy:

D-Tu Gb 834.2. More copies have to be inspected.


Online facsimile:

CH-Zz, CH-Bu


CH-Bu AN VIII 48, a1r

  
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