Unpublished Leaves from the Missal of Johannes von Giltlingen

摘要

AMONG THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AND CUTTINGS PRESENTED to Houghton Library by Philip Hofer (1898-1984), founding curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Harvard College Library, is a richly decorated leaf containing the text of a Mass for the feast of St. Ulrich and illustrated with a historiated initial of the same saint (see figure 1).~1 The leaf comes from one of the most important liturgical commissions produced in Augsburg during the 148os, a missal made for Johannes von Giltlingen, abbot of the imperial