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MISSALE DOMINICANUM, seu Ordinis Praedicatorum. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 24 December 1482.
Chancery 4° (197x150mm). Collation: a10 b-l8 m-z8 8 10 (a1r blank, a1v register, a2r calendar, a8r table, a10v blank, b1 text, 10r colophon, 10v blank). 204 (of 212, lacking 2-9) leaves. 33-34 lines, double column. Type: 7:92aG, 8:9sbG, musical notes printed on 4-line staves, printed in red and black. Woodcut lombard capitals printed in red, full-page woodcut on l8v, first 7-line initial supplied in red with Maiblumen decoration, other 2-5-line initials in red, woodcut rubricated. (First leaf repaired at fore-edge, a1,2 and 8-1 taped at inner margin, a10 repaired at fore-edge affecting a few words, b1.8 reinforced at hinge, l8 repaired at upper blank margin, final few lower corners repaired, last 2 quires rehinged, some soiling, place-name in final leaf cut away.) Nineteenth-century vellum-backed speckled paper boards, green speckled edges. Provenance: an unlocated Dominican convent; annotations in several hands, calendar annotated, including some deletions.
FIRST PRINTED MISSAL FOR DOMINICAN USE. Only four copies in America; rarely on the market. HC *11289; BMC V, 277 (IA. 21186-21186a); Goff M-636; Weale-Bohatta 1815; IDL 3240; IGI 6578.
Chancery 4° (197x150mm). Collation: a10 b-l8 m-z8 8 10 (a1r blank, a1v register, a2r calendar, a8r table, a10v blank, b1 text, 10r colophon, 10v blank). 204 (of 212, lacking 2-9) leaves. 33-34 lines, double column. Type: 7:92aG, 8:9sbG, musical notes printed on 4-line staves, printed in red and black. Woodcut lombard capitals printed in red, full-page woodcut on l8v, first 7-line initial supplied in red with Maiblumen decoration, other 2-5-line initials in red, woodcut rubricated. (First leaf repaired at fore-edge, a1,2 and 8-1 taped at inner margin, a10 repaired at fore-edge affecting a few words, b1.8 reinforced at hinge, l8 repaired at upper blank margin, final few lower corners repaired, last 2 quires rehinged, some soiling, place-name in final leaf cut away.) Nineteenth-century vellum-backed speckled paper boards, green speckled edges. Provenance: an unlocated Dominican convent; annotations in several hands, calendar annotated, including some deletions.
FIRST PRINTED MISSAL FOR DOMINICAN USE. Only four copies in America; rarely on the market. HC *11289; BMC V, 277 (IA. 21186-21186a); Goff M-636; Weale-Bohatta 1815; IDL 3240; IGI 6578.