Negligentie et defectus in missa continge[n]tes..
Printer of Hundorn,printer.
Ayrer, Marcus,approximately 1455-printer,attributed name.
Bosanquet, Eustace F.,1871-former owner.StEdNL
Bernard Quaritch (Firm),bookseller.StEdNL
Impressum Erffordie : [Printer of Hundorn],
anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.xciiii. [1494]
Imprint from colophon.
Printer from ISTC/GW; attributed by BMC to "Printer of Hundorn (Marx Ayrer?)", with note: In 1494 an edition of the Ars epistolandi of Andreas Hundorn was printed at Erfurt with types subsequently used there by Heydericus and Marx [or Marcus] Ayrer. In 1496 and 1497, however, Marx Ayrer was working at Ingolstadt with Georg Wirffel, and his signed work at Erfurt only begins in 1498. It is thus impossible to say whether the Hundorn was printed by him in 1494, or was the work of an anonymous printer, whose stock was bought by the two Ayrers in 1498.
Unsigned.
The title page woodcut depicts a priest saying mass, unaware of a fly hovering over the tipping chalice and a rat stealing the host; at upper corners, the letters M (musca) and R (rattus).
With marginal manuscript annotations in early hand, often cropped.
Manuscript note above colophon: pr[ae]lecta an[n]o d[omi]ni .1.5.2.3. in die Felicis in Pincis. [14/01/1523].
Rubricated.
Incunabula short title catalogue,
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke,
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries,
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum,
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge,
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog,
Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins,
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Pictorial bookplate of E. F. Bosanquet on front pastedown. Quaritch collation note on rear pastedown. Bought by the Library from the Lauriston Castle Fund 8 February 1944.
Modern half parchment with marbled paper over boards.
Mass
Germany Erfurt