Missale secundum vsum insignis ecclesie Sarum.

Accession number: 
PML 61800
Published: 
Impressum Londonensis apud Westmonasterium : per Julianum Notaire et Johanem Barbier ... iussu et impensis praestantissimi viri Winkin de Worde, .M.cccc.lxxxxviij. xx. die mensis. Decembris [20 December 1498].
Description: 
[1], i-cclxxxvii (with errors), [1] : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in honor of Curt F. Bühler, 1971.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, printed in red, leaf [cross]1r.
Imprint from colophon, printed in red, leaf H8r: IN laudem sanctissime trinitatis totiusq[ue] milicie celestis ad honore[m] et decore[m] s[an]c[t]e ecclesie. Saru[m] anglicane eiusq[ue] deuotissimi cleri: hoc missale diuinorum officiorum vigilanti studio emendatum Iussu et impe[n]sis p[rae]stantissimi viri Winkin de Worde. Impressum London[ensis]. apud Westmonasteriu[m] per Iulianum notaire et Iohanem barbier felici numine expicitu[m] est. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxviij. xx. die mensis. Decembris.
Notary and Barbier's printer's mark on leaf [cross]1r; De Worde's Caxton's printer mark, leaf H8v.
Printed in types Notary's 1:92G (BMC: 1a:92(108)G) and 2:110G.
Signatures: [cross]¹⁰; a-m⁸ n⁶ o-z⁸ [and]⁶ [con]⁸ [rum]⁶; A-H⁸: 292 leaves. Leaf [cross]10 not blank, as indicated in BMC.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
3 woodcuts. Printed initials and music staves. Printed throughout in black and red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 19.4 cm, heavily trimmed (temoin, leaf B7: 27.2 x 20.4 cm).
PML copy with leaf [cross]10 bound after n6; [cross]10r with manuscript ink offset from [cross]9v, so leaf rebound after expurgation.

Binding: 
Modern full brown calf over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Deborah Evetts, 1972. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. Previous binding was identified as 16th-century calf in Christie's catalogue, in box with Gower armorial; armorial preserved in modern Morgan box. Printed and manuscript binding waste preserved in dept. file: 1) 2 fragments of vellum manuscript and 2) partial printed leaf of Justinian, Digest XXVI, Lex. xlv-xlvii.
Variant Title: 

Missale secundum usum insignis ecclesie Sarum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: Extensive 16th-century marginal and interlinear notations in one hand (not same as Richard Bunch or Williams Thomas) throughout providing alternate/updated liturgical readings, with significant losses due to trimming; notations in calendar in English, Latin in text. All references to popes and St. Thomas of Canterbury inked out. Most musical notation unrealized. Additional prayer with music in different/earlier hand than marginal hand (leaf H8r).

Provenance: 
[Trentham Priory (Staffordshire), Augustinians, of Virgin Mary and All Saints, dissolved 1537 -- unclear evidence, provenance presumed by William Maskell (see note in dept. file);] early inscriptions: Richard Bunche, "Rychardus Bunche est possessor huius libri Amen" (leaves n1r, D3r, and F5r) and Williams Thom[a]s (perhaps Thomas William, prior of Trentham, d. 1499, leaf F4v); John Leveson-Gower, Baron Gower (1675-1709), armorial bookplate with shelfmark: G.11.4 (leaf [cross]1r) and Granville Levenson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (1721-1803), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, perserved from previous binding), through inheritance to: Elizabeth Millicent, countess of Sutherland (1921-2019), her sale, Christie's London, 30 June 1971, lot 22, to John F. Fleming for: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in honor of Curt F. Bühler, 1971.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books