missale Cartusiani
Subtitle: ordinis ex ordinatione capituli generalis anno domini M.D.L.XXVII : celebrati sub R.P.D.Innocentio le masson priore cartusiae ac totius eiusdem ordinis generali.
Publisher: Typis Lodovivi de Four
Published: 1679
Place of publication: Favratii in Sabavdia
Language: lat
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Missals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Missal (Carthusian).
Notes: Last 6 leaves include paste-ins for feasts of Corpus Christi, St. Peter of Alcantara, and St. Philip Neri MS (18th cent.?; Latin prayer on inside back cover; printed paste-in on different paper, numbered 279*, *280, after p. 266; MS (18th.-cent.?) for Solemnity of Our Lady Help of Christians, pasted in after p. 340; small MS (18th.-cent.?) paste-in of oration for feast of St. Beatrix, virgin, following p.l 324.

Roman type in black and red; musical notations for prefaces in black on red staves.

Full-page engraving (L. Cossin, sculptor) of 2 Carthusians in prayer on t.p.; full-page engraving of Crucifixion (L. Caussin [sic], sculptor) with holy women and St. John, p. 204; engraving of head of Christ, surrounded by wreath of flowers, with inscription 'Ego sum vie veritas et vita'; several larger engravings of winged cherubs, two of angels gathered around a cross (p. 181, 86 [final gathering]); small engraved scenes and initials throughout.

Deschamps 490; the first book printed at Faurat in Savoy.

Contemporary brown calf (rebacked by Donald Taylor), gold-stamped borders and fleurons in corners and on spine; gold-stamped crucifixion on front, Virgin Mary on back, both surrounded by gold filigree patterns.

Purchased ca. 1980.