Missale Romanum
By: [editor: Petrus Arrivabenus]
Contributors: Arrivabene, Pietro.
Publisher: Johannes Emericus de Spira for Lucantonio Giunta
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Work titles: Missal.
Notes: 32 sheets of North Italian paper watermarked with bull's head surmounted by crown, printed in red and black throughout.

35 lines in 2 columns, headline in red, Canon in 25 lines, one column; Gothic letter in black and red; black musical notations on red printed staves.

Full-page woodcut by Venetian artist (Essling crucifixion cut VII), appearing for first time in this missal. Two-quarter woodcut border of Renaisance ornament on incipit-page. Publisher's device on title page printed in red (inked over in black by hand). Red-printed Lombards. White-on-black woodcut intials, many historiated.

The only incunable Missal published by Giunta in octavo format.

Alès Parma 141.

Hain 11414

BMC V, 541

Meyer-Baer 163

Bohatta-Parma 317

Essling Missels 50

Goff M-714 (locating copies at Huntingdon and Yale only.

Contemporary Venetian brown calf over thin wooden boards, the sides panelled with sextuple fillets, a border forder formed by the repetition of a foliate ornament, centre rectangular compartment contains repeated impressions of a lozenge tool; rebacked with original spine laid down, clasps removed, vellum endleaves.

Several 16th-century ownership inscriptions of church of St. Batholomew in Faltigniano.

From Lathrop & Harper, Nov. 29, 1981.