Missale þm ritum ecclesie Lugdun.
Publisher: Denis de Harsy for Michel Despreaulx, 1530.
Published: 1530
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: lat
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Missals -- Early works to 1800.; Lyon (France) -- Religious life and customs
Work titles: Missal (Lyon, France)
Notes: 46 lines in double columns, rare early use ofprinted rules enclosing columns; 25 lines in single column for Canon, Gothic types in black and red; musical notations in black on red printed staves.

T.p. woodcut of John the Baptist and stoning of St. Stephen, woodcut borders, Latin inscription below: 'Twenty-six years before the birth of Jesus, Aumatius Planchus founded the city of Lyons'; at Canon 2 full-page facing woodcuts (Crucifixion; God the Father, symbols of 4 evangelists; 29 hisotriated woodcut initials in black, numerous large red initials in arabesque style,

with additional smaller red initials. throughout.

Nineteenth-century midnight blue morocco gilt edges, arms of the Count of Villafranca, gilt 'B' for 'Bourbon' at 8 corners.

Dealer's notation: This superb volume, in perfect condition, was later in the library of Robert de Bourbon, Duke of Parma, and John Saks. This appears to be the only extant book with the mark of the publisher Despreaulx, who was acctive at Lyon as binder, bookseller, and distributor for about sixty years.

Baudrier 2 41-2; Al°es Parma 86; Parma sale 95; Weale-Bohatta 554; Bohatta 140.

Not in STC French; not in Adams.

Purchase: Laurence Witten Rare Books, Southport CT, 9 Oct. 1981.