Missale secundum ritum et ordinem sacri ordinis Praemonstratensis ...
Edition: Auctum, repurgatum, ac novissim°e  editum.
Publisher: Apus Iacobum Kerver
Published: 1578
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Missals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Missal (Premonstratensians)
Notes: 42 lines in double columns, 28 lines for Canon, printed on vellum; Roman type in black with rubrics; 21 pages of music in black on red 4-line staves.

Woodcut of Premonstratensian arms on t.p., large Kerver Unicorn device on last page; large woodcut surrounded by woodcut borders on page facing Proprium Missarum, which has large woodcut of solemn Mass surmounted by Christ rising from the tomb, surrounded by instruments of the passion; full -page woodcut on vellum, facing Canon; see Mortimer French Books II 476, from Kerver's 1574 Missale Romanum; approximately 250 smaller woodcuts, varying sizes of saints, biblical scenes; numerous woodcut initials.

Brunet Supplément i 1039-40; Al°es Parma 313; Weale-Bohatta 1673 (listing this copy PIMS)590

Original binding of full dark calf over wooden boards, gilt borders and corner ornaments, large gilt stamps of the Virgin and Child, dated 1571, in centres of both covers; year date 1616 stamped on upper cover; edges gilt and ornately gauffered.

Contemporary inscription: "Cellae sup[erioris] ord[inis] Praem[onstratensis]", meaning this copy was kept in the cell of the Superior of the Order himself. Other MS (17th-cent.) inscription of Offertory prayers.

Leather bookplate of Ambroise Firmin-Didot; bookplate of R. Gordon Wasson.

Purchased 1 May 1989 from E.K. Schreiber, New York.