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Very Good - Small 8vo (~195 × 145 mm). Gothic type. Title within fine architectural woodcut border; decorative initials; a few headlines in larger type.
Light overall age-toning and faint marginal staining; short marginal tear to one leaf (no text loss); margins trimmed fairly close but wood-cut border intact; internal text crisp; binding sound; manuscript fragment clean and well-displayed.
Bound in stiff vellum made from a 15th-/early 16th-century manuscript antiphonal leaf, written in black square notation on red four-line staves. The fragment contains the Easter Preface of the Mass (“Te quidem, Domine… cum Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus…”) and the Preface dialogue (Sursum corda – Habemus ad Dominum – Dignum et iustum est), Central Europe, c. 1480–1520. A vivid example of manuscript-waste binding, symbolically wrapping a Reformation text in the very liturgy it displaced.
Collation: A–O⁴ P² = [60] ff. (120 pp. if paginated by pages). Signatures and pagination vary among copies; pp. 1–88 = Quaestiones; pp. 89–109 = Epistola; final leaves comprise index and errata. - Complete
References: VD16 L 139/L 154; Adams L-57. Fewer than a dozen institutional holdings noted. Please see photos as part of condition report
