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MISSALE ROMANUM. Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus and Paganinus de Paganinis, 27 September 1484.
Super-chancery 2° (292 x 193mm). Gothic types, double column, printed in red and black, printed music on staves, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion. Extra leaf of ms. prayers to St Jodocus the Confessor inserted between u5 and u6. (Lacking last leaf containing the register and device, supplied in facsimile, wormed, heavier at beginning, occasional staining or spotting, several leaves strengthened at hinges.) German 16/17th-century half blindtooled calf over wooden boards, the boards previously covered with leather and tooled with IHS device at centre, a reimboitage, blue edges, modern endpapers (neat repairs, without two fore-edge clasps). Provenance: early annotations, 17th-century pagination -- Tachau, Franciscans (inscriptions dated 1629) -- Otto Schaefer (monogram at end; sale Sotheby's NY, 4 December 1996, lot 273).
The music type used here is that which was first used a month earlier by Bernardino Benali for his Missale Romanum of 15 August 1484. Benali, Arrivabenus and Paganinis had printed jointly a missal in 1483, and it is likely that the music was printed outside the Arrivabenus shop, presumably in Benali's. Copies are known without the printed music. The full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion is one of the earliest examples of Venetian book illustration. It had previously been used in Scotus's Missal of 31 August 1482. HC *11386; BMC V, 38; IGI 6614; Meyer-Baer 132; Sander 4739; Weale-Bohatta 889; Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula 67.
Super-chancery 2° (292 x 193mm). Gothic types, double column, printed in red and black, printed music on staves, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion. Extra leaf of ms. prayers to St Jodocus the Confessor inserted between u5 and u6. (Lacking last leaf containing the register and device, supplied in facsimile, wormed, heavier at beginning, occasional staining or spotting, several leaves strengthened at hinges.) German 16/17th-century half blindtooled calf over wooden boards, the boards previously covered with leather and tooled with IHS device at centre, a reimboitage, blue edges, modern endpapers (neat repairs, without two fore-edge clasps). Provenance: early annotations, 17th-century pagination -- Tachau, Franciscans (inscriptions dated 1629) -- Otto Schaefer (monogram at end; sale Sotheby's NY, 4 December 1996, lot 273).
The music type used here is that which was first used a month earlier by Bernardino Benali for his Missale Romanum of 15 August 1484. Benali, Arrivabenus and Paganinis had printed jointly a missal in 1483, and it is likely that the music was printed outside the Arrivabenus shop, presumably in Benali's. Copies are known without the printed music. The full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion is one of the earliest examples of Venetian book illustration. It had previously been used in Scotus's Missal of 31 August 1482. HC *11386; BMC V, 38; IGI 6614; Meyer-Baer 132; Sander 4739; Weale-Bohatta 889; Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula 67.
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