‎Ecclesia Catholica - MISSALE TORNACENSE :‎
‎Missale ad usum insignis ecclesie Tornacensis nuper per eiusde ecclesie p.batos ac divi ni verbi tritos viros auctu e recognitu...(Antwerp postincunabula 1527)‎

‎" Antwerpen, Christoffel van Ruremund, (on behalf of) Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten en Willem Vorsterman, 18th October 1527, (sic 1257 on title), in-folio, 318 x202 mm, printed in two columns, printed throughout in red and black. Title with central woodcut and border consisting of 14 smaller woodcuts + (1)(tabula festorum mobilum) + (12)(kalendarium) + (2)(accidentia misse) + 266 lvs (foliated; i-cxxviii; 14 non fol.; i-lxxxii; i-xlii), leaves 143-144 printed on vellum,143b being a full page woodcut (canonplate) in contemporary coloring, 67 small woodcuts in the text, contains also 4 leaves with printed music; black notes on 4-lined red staves, (this is one of the earliest known music printings in the Low Countries where staves and notes are printed separately). 19th century half leather binding, raised gilt back, all edges painted red (binding signed J.Burio, Gand). Exceptionally crisp and clean unused copy. USTC 437374 . Nijhoff-Kronenburg N°3539. Only three copies of which two in Northern France and one in Belgium (Mechelen, Groot Seminarie, now K.U.L. Library). The Missal, containing the liturgy or office of the mass in the Roman Catholic Church is one of the most important liturgical books. Because of the frequent liturgical changes and the daily use of the missal, particularly the canon part, old copies in good shape are very rare. Most copies were either completely worn or discarded as being obsolete. This edition, for the diocese of Tournai (which comprised the County of Flanders), is the second printing. Of the printer Christoffel of Ruremond it is known that he died in Westminster prison in 1531. He was arrested in England because he sold the New Testament in English, translated by Tyndale to a bookbinder called John Row (see Y. Foxe, Ecclesiasticall History...London 1576); see also Anne Rouzet, Dictionnaire pp.193-194. USTC N° 437374 .."‎

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