Missale monasticum s[e]c[un]d[u]m morem [et] ritum Casinensis congregationis al[ia]s Sancte Justine

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The instance Missale monasticum s[e]c[un]d[u]m morem [et] ritum Casinensis congregationis al[ia]s Sancte Justine represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

Label

Missale monasticum s[e]c[un]d[u]m morem [et] ritum Casinensis congregationis al[ia]s Sancte Justine

Instantiates

• Missale monasticum s[e]c[un]d[u]m morem [et] ritum Casinensis congregationis al[ia]s Sancte Justine

Publication

• Venetijsque, Per Lucam Antonium de Giuntis Florentinum accuratissime impressum, anno a salutifera incarnatione quingentesimosexto supra millesimum xiiij kal. maias 1506 Apr. 18

Note

• Edition statement and imprint from colophon
• First ten leaves contain a calendar of moveable feasts, and a calendar, arranged by month, of saints days and other important feasts commemorating events in the lives of Christ and the Virgin. Calendar also includes the Dominical Letters (for computing Sundays), Golden Numbers (for identifying new moons, and computing full moons), and designation of each day according to the ancient Roman calendrical system
• Liturgical music arranged on red four-line staves, with square notation in black, and Latin words
• Printed in bold gothic type, in two columns, in red and black
• Woodcuts: title vignette of St. Benedict standing atop a pedestal captioned "Congregatio Casinensis", and flanked by St. Placido and St. Mauro; printer's device on t.p. (the Giunta fleur-de lis in red, with initials "L.A."); lavishly illustrated with a full-page Crucifixion (leaf 106v); 19 large woodcuts (113 x 91 mm.) depicting scenes from the Bible and the lives of Christ and the saints; 20 large historiated initial letters (115 x 93 mm.); and more than 400 additional ornamental initials, decorated marginal extenders, and smaller illustrations. Sixteen pages have large elaborate architectural borders, decorated with portraits of the Evangelists, scenes from the Bible, religious figures, flowers, vines, birds, animals, and grotesque heads. The woodcut illustrations and borders are from the blocks used in the Messale Vallombrosano of 1503; cf. Camerini
• Signatures: [maltese cross]10 A-2A8 2B6 2C-2G8 2H6
• Not in Mortimer, Adams, or BM STC Italian

Dimensions

35 cm. (fol.)

Edition

Diligentissime reuisum correctum ac emendatum.

Extent

[10], 246 [i.e. 244] leaves

Note

Spec. Coll. copy: red levant morocco "super-extra" binding, signed "Bradstreet's", with interlacing geometrical designs in gilt on upper and lower boards; rebacked spine, panelled, and lettered in gilt; elaborate sapphire blue doublures, with gilt-tooled gothic architectural design, featuring inlays of red, green, and yellow morocco; inner gilt dentelles; top edges gilt; endpapers of sapphire blue watered silk. Bookplate of the General Theological Seminary of New York. Purchase, Heritage Book Shop, 1987.

Other physical details

ill. (woodcuts), music

Record ID

3707651

System control number

• (OCoLC)173651278
• ucoclc173651278