Missale ad usu[m] ac co[n]suetudine[m] Saru[m].
Contributors: Birckman, Franz, d. 1530.; Prévost, Nicolas, fl. 1504-1538.
Publisher: Nicolas Prévost for Franz Birckmann
Published: 1527
Place of publication: [Paris
Language: lat
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts; Missals -- Texts.; Gregorian chants.
Work titles: Missal (Sarum)
Notes: Hand notation at back: 'Collated 8 perfect. F.W.'

42 lines in double columns. Canon in 21 lines on 2 leaves of vellum. Printed in red and black with musical notations. Gothic type.

Full-page woodcut title-page; full-page woodcut of Crucifixion on vellum (fol. clv verso); half-page woodcut, borders (fol. 1); 27 1/6-page woodcuts of saints and feasts; 90 small woodcuts; woodcut historiated initials on every page.

Several references to the pope and to Thomas °a Becket crossed out.

19th-cent. brown calf, diced russia gilt stamped; rebacked Middleton Sept. 1974.

Chants for: Blessing of Candles, Gloria, Ordinary (Gloria, Dominus vobiscum, Oremus, Per omnia secula, Credo, Hostias et preces), Prefaces (Christmas to Circumcision, Epiphany, In capite ieiunii, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, Apostles & Evangelists and their Octave, Holy Cross, BVM, Feria & Feasts, Quotidians, Sanctus), Canon (Per omnia secula, Pater noster, Pax domini), Conclusiones missarum (Benedicamus domino, Ite missa est, Ite deus creator, Requiescant in pace). Music on 4-line staves for Easter, Ordinary (Gloria, Per omnia secula, Credo), Prefaces (Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Apostles, Holy Cross, BVM, Festivals, Daily), Canon (Per omnia secula, Pater noster, Pax domini), Conclusiones Missarum, Proprium (Purification BVM).

With calendar.

Owner's inscription: 'Kenyon 24 June 1974.'

Sotheby's sale 24 June 1974, Lot 2690, '£LER+'.

Purchased lot 101 Christie's sale, 6 Dec. 1990.

NUC pre-1956, 99: 0220387.

STC, 16206. Recording 7 copies, incl. 2 imperfect at BM and Durham University library.

Weale-Bohatta, 1438, (giving wrong collation)

Moreau III, 1283..