Missale ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis.
Publisher: Richard Hamilton for Robert Valentin]
Published: 1554
Place of publication: [Rouen
Language: lat
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Missals -- Early works to 1800
Work titles: Missal (Salisbury, England)
Notes: Colophon: Missale ad usu[m]Sarisburiensis explicit, optimis formulis, ut res ipsa indicat, diligentissime revisum ad [sic] correctum, cum multis annotatiunculis, ac literis alphabeticis Evangeliorum atq[ue] Epistolarum originem indicantibus. Ex officina Richardi Hamiltonis typographi..

Woodcut printer's device of Robert Valentin on t.p. and last page; large wood-cut of solemn Mass surmounted by instruments of the passion and by Christ rising from tomb; large woodcut of Crucifixion [marked M:l]; smaller woodcuts of Easter, of St. Andrew, and of Pentecost; numerous woodcut initials.

19th-century red Morocco, gold-tooled frames with fleurons in centre and at 4 corners, MS leaves [Latin Bible] from original binding are retained opposite title page and after explicit. Later MS inscription: 'The rich and poor mete to/gether the lord is maker.'

Stamped at back AE [Albert Ehrman], his bookplate at front; bookplate of the Broxbourne library, marked 'J.P.W.E. 17 March 1949 ex dono A & R.E.'; bookplate of Louis Charles Karpinski.

Weale-Bohatta 1452; STC 16216; the 2nd ed. of the first missal printed during the reign of Queen Mary, including alterations and additions occasioned by the ecclesiastical changes in England. The marriage ceremony (fol. 36 of final numbering) is given in both English and Latin. Produced in Rouen by an English typographer.

Purchased ca. 1980 from H.P. Kraus, New York.