Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1503, vdm: 229
multiple impression
Uncial, Schwabacher
red staff lines, red initials, red text
Staves made up of six blocks of 22.5 mm. Music notation only on separate gatherings before the canon, signed a-d8 in the header, not at the bottom of the page. Two columns, 33, 29, 20 lines.
Ratdolt’s printer’s device is printed in red and black. In a number of instances the text underlay and the musical notation (both in black) come very close to each other, often having to give way for each other. Evidently printed in triple impression.
Hufnagel notation
full-length staff c. 133 x 16.5 mm; Height of virga one: 8.5 mm; height of virga two: 12 mm.
chant
Noted prefaces for various feasts of various ranks, and incipits for Kyries, Glorias, Credos, Ite, Benedicamus, Inclinate.
Weale, William Henry James. Bibliographia liturgica: Catalogus missalium ritus latini ab anno MCCCLXXV impressorum. Edited by Hanns Bohatta. London: Quaritch, 1928 (766, 767)
Daschner, Dominik. Die gedruckten Meßbücher Süddeutschlands bis zur Übernahme des Missale Romanum Pius V. (1570). Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1995