MISSAL, WITH ADDITIONAL OFFICES FOR ST. ANNE, CONTRA PESTEM HOMINUM AND DE CONCEPTIONE SIXTUS PAPA
MS in Latin on paper, Augsburg?, Southern Germany, ca. 1485, 209 ff. (complete), 31x20 cm, single column, (24x14 cm), 16 and 32-34 lines in a Gothic bastarda book script, musical Hufnagel notation on a red 5-line staff, numerous painted initials, some line endings of red penwork, 48 painted initials with border decoration, 5 with historiated borders, 1 inserted full-page miniature on vellum of the Crucifixion in gold and colours, in the Rhenish art style of this period.
Binding: Germany, 1549, dark brown leather, over wooden boards, sewn of 5 bands, 15 stamps of roundels with renaissance busts and a large central panel gilt with 3 standing musicians on upper cover, 15 similar roundels and stamps of standing Renaissance warriors on lower cover, 9 brass bosses. Inscription gilt on upper cover: " Missale renovatum Anno Domini MDXLIX".
Provenance: 1. J.W. Abberg (1669); 2. Bruce Ferrini, Akron, Ohio.
See also 1372, Missal, Tyrol, 2nd half 15th c.
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