Rationale divinorum officiorum
Contributors: Chapman, Christopher, active 1704-1756; Steel, Jane, active 1715-1720
Series: German books before 1601 -- roll 12, item 1
Publisher: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer
Published: 1459
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: lat
Number of pages: 160
Notes: On vellum. Printed in black and red; three-line chapter initials printed red (unprinted initials supplied by rubricator); rubric headings and occasional paragraph marks printed in red; colophon printed in red.

Signatures: 1¹⁰(-1₂) 2-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7⁶(7₅+chi₁, stub at 7₁,₂) 8² 9⁸(-9₈, stub present) 10⁶(-10₅) 11¹⁰(-11₁₀) 12-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18¹⁰(-18₈; 18₉+chi₁, stub at 18₁,₂)

Blanks: 8/2v, 16/8v, and 18/10v.

Initial spaces: leaves 1a, 13 lines; 20a, 27b, 140a, and 154b, 7 lines.

Initials: 1a without initial; 1b, 14b, 20a, 27b, 68a, 82a, 140a and 154b supplied by rubricator in red and blue; 1b in red, 14b (block printed?)in red and light blue, 20a (block printed) in red and light blue; 27b (block printed?) in blue and red; 68a (block printed? in blue and red, 82a (block printed?) in red and blue, 140a in red, 154b in red.

Ms. foliation in red numbered i-clix (cxxxii-cxxix wrongly numbered cxxii-cxxix; last leaf without number; leaves ii, lxxv, lxxx, lxxxxi and clviii wanting).

Book numbers written as headline, recto pages only, in roman numerals in red, with "L" written as headline, verso pages only, in red.

Evidence of ms. quiring in Arabic numerals on quires 2, 5, 14, 17, and 18.

Cropped leaves: leaf 1 cropped from middle of top of leaf to lower outer margin, with loss of text; leaves 7, 10, 13-17, 21-24, 29, 33-35, 42-44, 49, 56, 59-61, 62, 63-66, 67-68, 71, 76-78, 82-90, 92, 99-103, 105-106, 108, 110, 113, 115-116, 118, 120-129, 131-132, 134-139, 141, 145-148, and 152-156 cropped at lower margin ca. 3 1/2 inchs the length of leaf, affecting text on some leaves.

Ms. index on leaf 160b.

Bound by Christopher Chapman or Jane Steel. Cf. Nixon, H.M. "Harleian bindings", Studies in the book trade in honour of Graham Pollard, p. 160 and plates 14-15, roll 5, tools 3, 9, 13, 14a, 14b and 17.

BM 15th cent., I, p. 20 (IC.78-79)

GW 9101, Anm. 5., 7 line capital.