Missale ad usum insignis ac preclare ecclesie Sa[rum].

Accession number:

PML 18384

Published:

Impressum Parisiis : per Fra[n]ciscu[m] Regnault, Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo vigesimoseptimo, die vero .xxvij. Iulij [27 July 1527].

Description:

[7], cxlii leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.
Collation: 7 prelim. leaves; leaf 1 (with cut)-cxlii (full page cut on verso of leaf cxix; sig. Sax. q. irreg. numbered); leaf 1 incipit proprium festivitatem sanctorum (with cut and border)-leaf lxii; leaf 1 Incipit commune sanctorum proprium non habentium (cut and border)-leaf lii.
Printed in red and black with woodcuts.
Several full-page woodcuts within borders, many small cuts, historiated initials. Title page border dated 1525 in left and right panels.

Binding:

16th-century English blind-tooled calf, over wooden boards; rebacked and repaired by Duprez Lahey. The upper cover has the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and the lower the arms of Henry VIII, supported by a dragon and a greyhound, with the Tudor rose and portcullis emblems. An early 20th-century description of the binding suggested that it was possibly produced in France and stamped with English armorials once in England.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Death of Thomas Begwood recorded in calendar on 24 March: "Obit[us] Thome Begwood [illegible]." Birth date of Wyboro (Wyborow?) Slade recorded in calendar: "[??] that Wyboro Slade was borne the iiiith daye of Iuno an[no] d[omi]ni 1535 [4 June 1535] an[no] [??] Henr[ico] oct[avo] xxvijth." All references to popes in calendar and text scraped away.

Provenance:

William Raves (of Reeves?), purchase inscription: "Constat Gulihelmo Raves capillano" (colophon and rear endleaf); Henry White (d. 1836), signature and date: "Henr. White Lichfeld: Maii xviii MDCCCXV" (front endleaf) and "Henr. White, Lichfeild[en], June 22 1806" (rear endleaf); Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846), blue armorial stamp (front endleaf, verso of titlepage, and under the colophon); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Sept. 1908.

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