Missale Striginiense 1484 - Monumenta Ritualia Hungarica 1.

The present volume is a critical edition of the 1484 Missal of Esztergom, the most prestigious archiepiscopal see of Hungary. The printing of the Missale Strigoniense 1484 took place in the 26th year of King Matthias' reign, and was finished on 31 August 1484, in Nuremberg, at Anton Koburger's workshop. The manuscript of which the 1484 Missal could well be a textually faithful copy must have been a representative book of the Esztergom Use. Thus the present edition of an incunabulum of great significance in itself, could also become the foundation of comparative studies; all the differences in the other-both anterior and posterior-sources will be measured against this volume. The basis for the present edition is the copy Inc. 177 of the 1484 Missal from the Collection of Early Books (Régi Nyomtatványok Tára) of the National Széchényi Library (Budapest). The Missale Strigoniense 1484 is edited and introduced by Balázs Déri, head of the Latin Department of the Faculty of Humanities of Loránd Eötvös University (Budapest), classical and medieval Latin philologist and musicologist.