Title page:

[fol. 1r:] Incipit liber missalis ẜm choꝝ || patauiẽsem.||

Colophon:

Expletum est hoc opꝰ librorū || missalium pro Patauieñ eccłe || ritu:caractere iocūdissimo Au||guste impressum opera et im/||pensis Erhardi ratdolt ibide𝔷 || artis impressorie vulgatissimi || Anno salutis dñice Millesimo || ꝗngētesimoquinto.Die vero || quinto mensis Januarij.||

CCLXIIIv: 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 fronds 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

This edition is a variant of vdm 780. In each edition, the colophon is the same (dated 5 January 1505), but the preface (from bishop Wiguleus Fröschl) has been completely reset. In this edition, the preface (fol. [α]2v) is dated 6 January 1505 (“Datum in ciuitate nostra Patauieñ De anno do||minice natiuitatis.Millesimo quingentesimo quinto. die sexta || mensis Januarij”). After gathering E, CXXIIII contain propers for particular saints, material reported by the printer as being recently received. This edition includes chant for the Liber generationis.

Printing mandate from Wigileus Fröschl, bishop of Passau (*2r–v): “Datum in ciuitate nostra Patauien. De ãno dñice natiuitatꝭ Millesimo quingentesimoquinto Die quinta mensis Januarij” (preface)

In some copies (e.g. A-Su) there is a full-page woodcut with SS Valentine, Stephen and Maximilian on *2v. Some woodcut initials, particularly in canon. Canon woodcut. Some historiated initials printed in red and black.

Latin

[13], I–CXXVIII, [6], CXXXV–CCXXIIII, [16], CCXXV–CCLXIII, [1]

Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs Rar. 2140

D-Mbs