Description |
Hymnal in Hufnagel notation as part of Psalterium Moguntium, Mainz: Fust and Schöffer 1457 Printing and MS on vellum, Mainz, 1457, 4 printed ff. 35x24 cm, single column (30x19 cm) with 20 lines of MS Hufnagel notation on 5 hand-drawn staff-lines on spaces provided between the printed lines. Rubrics printed in red, 6 large initials printed in red with "Maiblumen" decoration in light blue, and in blue with "Maiblumen" in pink, the printed decoration extending up to 8 lines (12 cm). |
Context |
The complete Mainz Psalter with Office of the Dead and Hymnal had
175 leaves (the short issue with Psalter only had 143 leaves). The present bifolium was ff. 148 and 151. Only 3 more or less complete copies of the long issue survives today and 8 of the short issue, and 26 fragments with1-3 leaves. The Gutenberg Bible by comparison, survives in 49 more or less complete copies, and over 200 single leaf fragments, apart from fragments with several leaves. MS 5582 is also registered in the Schøyen Collection of incunables as INC 72.
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Provenance |
1. Cover of the binding of "Bürgermeister-Rechnung de anno 1693"; 2. Ludwig Rosenthal, München cat. 105 (1903):5; 3. Otto Hupp, Schleissheim near München; 4. Karl & Faber auction 96 (May 1965) lot 220; 5.
Dr. Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt, OS 418 (1965-2000); 6. Otto G. Schäfer, Schweinfurt (2000-2014); 7. Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books AG, Stalden, Schweiz (2014-2017), cat.12 (2016):2 and Brochure 16 (2016):21.
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