Bernardinus de Busti

Mariale

1493

1493

HCR 4160*; BMC VI 779; Goff B1333; Kaplan 138; ISTC ib01333000; GW 5804

Shoults (Special Collections) Ib/1493/B

Milan: Leonardus Pachel, 21 May 1493

Faded brown boards. Spine cover detached. Spine title reads: De Busti/ Mariae/ 1493. Additional spine label (partially disintegrated) reads: Ecclesiastical His [tory] Series. No. [848].

Early title-page, prologus page with detailed intitial, colophon and printer's device.

Leonardus Pachel had collaborated with Uldericus Scinzenzeler in 1477-87, but the first edition authenticated as produced by Pachel is the Tartagnus, Super parte ia Infortiati, 27th March 1488 (Hain-C 15307). Pachel's print device is present.

Sermons on the Virgin Mary. The first edition of the complete Mariale. The first part with the Officium conceptionis B.V.M (15a-67b) had already been printed by Uldericus Scinzenzeler in Milan in May 1492.

Paper. [388] leaves; 200 x 135 mm (small quarto).
Gothic type; double columns, 58 lines to a full column.
Title-page: f.1a 'Mariale de excelletus Regine celi.'
Colophon: 'Impressum Mediolani per Magistrum Leonardum pachel. Anno domini M. cccc.lxxxxiij. die xxi. Maij.'
Printed capitals throughout the text.

1. Nicolai Landei (?)
2. Father Paulus (?)
3. Canon William Ardene Shoults
4. Selwyn College; University of Otago Library