Bod-Inc: M-253
Missale
Missale Coloniense (Cologne).
Analysis of Content
[*2r] [Extracts from the statuta provincialia of Guilhelmus [von Gennep?], Archbishop of Cologne.] Incipit: ‘[V]olumus ex tenore presentium sub pena suspensionis . . .’
[*2v] ‘XIII consilia doctorum pro periculis que in missa contingere possunt'. Incipit: ‘[S]ciendum etiam sumopere quod secundum scripta sanctorum doctorum Thome, Alberti . . .’ Explicit: tamen consecrat
[*4v] ‘Benedictio salis'. Followed by ‘Benedictio aque' and ‘Ad induendum se sacerdos vestibus'.
[*5r] [Calendarium.] It includes: 11 Jan. ‘Obitus tertii regis, duplex'; 11 Feb. ‘Desiderii ep et cf, iii lc'; 28 Feb. ‘Romani m et ab'; 1 Mar. ‘Suicberti ep'; 16 Mar. ‘Heriberti ep et cf'; 2 May ‘Transl. Casij et soc. eius'; 29 May ‘Maximini ep'; 10 June ‘Maurini ab et m'; 16 June ‘Aurei ep et sororis eius'; 4 July ‘Udalrici ep et cf, ix lc'; 7 July ‘Millibalbi ep et cf'; 9 July ‘Agilolfi ep et m'; 23 July ‘Transl. trium regum, duplex' (red); 27 July ‘Ermolai presb. et m, iii lc'; 5 Aug. ‘Osualdi regis'; 20 Aug. ‘Malachie ep et cf'; 13 Sept. ‘Materni ep et cf, ix lc'; 28 Sept. ‘Menzelai m, iii lc'; 3 Oct. ‘Duorum Euualdorum martyrum'; 10 Oct. ‘Gereonis et soc. eius, duplex' (red); 16 Oct. ‘Elyphij m, ix lc'; 21 Oct ‘Undecim milium virginum, duplex' (red); 22 Oct. ‘Cordule v'; 23 Oct. ‘Seuerini ep, duplex' (red); 24 Oct. ‘Euergisti ep et m, ix lc'; 3 Nov. ‘Huperti ep et cf'; 7 Nov. ‘Millibrordi ep et cf, iii lc'; 12 Nov. ‘Cuniberti ep, semiduplex ix lc'; 4 Dec. ‘Annonis ep, ix lc'. See Franz Joseph Peters, Beiträge zur Geschichte der kölnischen Messliturgie, Untersuchungen über die gedruckten Missalien des Erzbistums Köln, Colonia Sacra, 2 (Cologne, 1951), 34-72.
a1r [Proprium de tempore.]
[**1r] [Toni communes.] Intonations for ‘Ite missa est'; ‘Gloria in excelsis deo'; ‘Benedicamus domino'.
[**1v] [Ordinarium missae.]
[***1r] [Canon missae.]
z1r [Proprium de sanctis.] From ‘In vigilia s Andree' to ‘Katherinee'.
ll1r ‘Commune sanctorum'.
nn3v ‘In dedicatione ecclesie'. Followed by ‘In dedicatione altaris.’
nn5v [Missae votivae.] See M‑267 nos 1; 5; ‘De eterna sapientia' (41?); ‘De Charitate'; ‘De venerabili sacramento'; 3; 60; ‘De domina nostra' (4?); ‘De omnibus sanctis'; 8; ‘De quolibet patrono'; 16; 11; ‘Pro episcopo'; 35-6; 15; 9; 23; 19; 24; ‘Pro amico'; ‘Pro amico penitente'; ‘Pro pluribus amicis seu familiaribus'; ‘Pro tribulatione'; 20; 48; 39; 18; 17; 10; 33; 12; ‘Contra nimiam pluuiam'; 29; ‘Contra tempestatem ventorum tonitruorum vel choruscationem'; ‘Contra sterilitatem terre siue pestilentiam et famem' (52?); 13; 58; 53; ‘Generalis collecta'; 56; ‘Pro humilitate'; ‘Pro patientia'; 37; and see Peters 168-72.
qq4v [Missae pro defunctis.]
rr1v ‘Sequentie'.
rr4v ‘Tabula'.
Imprint
Imprint: Basel: [Michael Wenssler], 1487. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*] a b10 c–y [**]10 [***]8 [****]12 z aa–ii8 kk6 ll–pp8 qq10 rr8.
Illustrations: Woodcut.
References
ISTC: im00653700
Hain: C 4115;
Proctor: Pr 7514;
Others: Polain 2720; Schreiber V 4684; Sheppard 2354; Weale–Bohatta 288.
LCN: 14534647
Copies
Copy number: M-253(1)
Wanting the blank leaf rr8.
The unsigned gathering containing the Canon is of 10 leaves (not as Polain). Leaf [**10r]: ‘(red) Finita miſſa inclinet dicens. | P (black) laceat tibi ſācta trinitas hoc ob | ſequium . . .'; [**10v], blank. The Canon is preceded by a parchment leaf bearing a woodcut, reproduced in Heitz, Kanonbilder, 14.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; leather and parchment index tabs.
Size: 357 × 250 × 65 mm.
Size of leaf: 344 × 226 mm.
On [*1r] bibliographical notes, apparently in Niesert's hand. A few marginal notes, mainly providing corrections to the text, in two different early hands.
The Canon woodcut is coloured. On a1r a nine-line initial ‘A' is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration within a ground consisting of red pen-work decoration. On the same leaf, the woodcut border is partly coloured in red. Other initials are supplied in blue, some with reserved white decoration.
Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766-1841), 1818; inscription on [*1r]: ‘Bibliothecae J. Niesert pastoris in Velen 1818'; sale (1843), lot 275. Purchased at Niesert's sale for £1. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 34.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 1.15.
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