Missale ad usum insignis ecclesie Tornacensis
Subtitle: nuper per ejusdem ecclesie probatos ac divini verbi trito viros auctum et recognitum.
Published: 1540
Language: lat
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Missals -- Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Missal (Tournai, Franc)
Notes: 42 lines with headlines, 21 lines in Canon, musical notations on a 4-line staff, 11 staves to column.

Large hand-coloured woodcut of Crucifixion (See Mortimer, French 377; Fairfax-Murray, French 538) contained within an architectural woodcut border on vellum; also woodcut title page depicting corporal and spiritual worlds, where the Trinity and host of angels float above Mother Church, with woodcut frames illustrating life of Christ; numerous woodcutr scenes and smaller woodcut initials throughout.

Weale, Bibliographie liturgica 453 lists only 8 other known copies, all but one incomplete; Weale-Bohatta 1515; BM/STC Dutch 216.

Full contemporary calf over oak boards, blind-stamped with arabesques inside panelled frames, clasps missing; expertly rebacked; vellum (manuscript) leaves as end-pages in front and back.

Ownership stamp: "Gen. Theo. Seminary Library New York" on final leaf.

Purchased from Ursus Books, New York, September 1988.