Missale, Dominican Use -

Missale Dominicanum Seu Ordinis Praedicatorum

      , Philippus de Rotingo et Octavianus Scotus, Venetiis 1482 - 28. XI. 1482. 4to ; (240)ff with some misnumbered signatures; folio (p8) with a woodcut containing the crucifixion; folio (b1) recto, on field in gold leaf, pink initial, with white watermark, blue inner field and external motifs with green and pink leafs, whose style is repeated in 22 successive initials; rubricated with other 200 initials in pink and blue. Text and music notations in black and red. Bound in contemporary calf over wooden boards with metal clasps almost integrally preserved. Blind tooled geometrical motifs on covers. Restored spine (with 18th century calf) and some repairs on corners. Venetian edition printed by Ottaviano Scoto in the la autumn of 1482. FIRST MISSAL PRINTED FOR DOMINICAN USE. The crucifixion woodcut opening the Canon is one of the earliest Venetian figurative book illustrations. It was first used by Scotus in a Roman Missal almost exactly one year previously (29 December 1481); this is its third use. As testifies the rich miniature of the volume and some manuscripted notes, our copy was ordered by a member of the Estensi family for the Dominican convent. BMC V, 277; Sander 4737; Hain 11376; Copinger-Reichling 4191; Goff M-693; IGI 6608; Weale- Bohatta, 877. This edition has no records in the auction catalogues of the last 30 years. [Attributes: Hard Cover]