Missale ad vsum insignis ecclesie Sar[um]
Subtitle: nuper accuratissime castigatu [m], perpulcrisq[ue] caracteribus impressum officia omnium sanctorum totaliter ad lo[n]gum (quod celebrantibus maxime erit vtilitati) contine[n]s cu[m] pluribus officiis nouis i[n] fine additis
Contributors: Candos, Guillaume, bookseller; Violette, Pierre, printer; Halsall, Henry, former owner; Adair, Robert Shafto, 1786-1869, former owner; Haskew, Thomas, former owner; Husenbeth, F. C. (Frederick Charles), 1796-1872, correspondent; St. Cuthbert's Church (Halsall, England); Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher: In officina magistri Petri violette impensis honesti viri Guillermi candos
Published: 1509
Place of publication: Impressu[m] Rothomagi
Language: lat
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Catholic Church; Prayers and devotions
Other titles: Missale ad usum insignis ecclesie Sarum; Missale Sarisburiense; Benton Collection of Editions of the Book of Common Prayer.
Work titles: Missal (Salisbury, England)
Notes: Signatures: [pi]́ı a-q́ı ŕœ śœ A-H́ı ℗øA-F́ı I-Ḱœ.

Printed in red and black.

Numerous leaves misnumbered.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 16186

cataloged 20180410 lrouse

condition reviewed 20180316 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy BENTON 509.C28M formerly owned by Sir Henry Halsall, with one inscription recording his donation of the book to Halsall Church, Lancashire, and another that Willm. Welding borrowed the book from Sir Thomas Haskew, priest. Lower margins of leaves cxxxiv-cxxxv each contain 4 lines of Latin marginalia. Full page ms. entitled Oratio on ending flyleaf. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair on front pastedown, and an 1846 letter loosely inserted from F.C. Husenbeth who borrowed the book from Adair for research. Along with this is a typewritten description and a bookdealer's catalog description, possibly from Quaritch whose collation note appears on back pastedown. Inserts are housed in accompanying envelope BENTON 509.C28M Addenda.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy BENTON 509.C28M bound in 19th-century blind tooled calf, with floral border on covers and fully tooled spine compartments, with gilt spine title: Missale Sarisburiense. Early thumb indexes. Covers coated with shellac. Title leaf and leaves 130 through 137 damaged; first gathering silked. Numbers on endpapers, with extensive early ms inscriptions and corrections on last 2 leaves and flyleaf. Names of popes and Thomas of Canterbury in calendar inked over in compliance with Henry VIII's censorship.