Missal. Use of Sarum

Median folio (330 x 226mm.), printed in red and black throughout, title-page with woodcuts, woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials printed in red, typeset music on a 4-line stave, quire q⁴ printed on vellum with a full-page hand-coloured woodcut, early manuscript note at foot of r1, eighteenth-century polished calf with blind-tooled border, lacking q4 (one of the vellum leaves), first few leaves with holes caused by bosses from an earlier binding (repaired on title-page, slightly affecting text on first ten leaves), p8 torn without loss but touching text, C4-D8 repaired at lower corner (just touching text on a few leaves), first and last leaf slightly soiled, a few small wormholes in first and last few leaves, first flyleaf detached, upper cover detached, extremities rubbed

erased inscription on verso of second flyleaf; Denis-François Secousse (1691-1754), of Paris, engraved armorial bookplate, his library sold at auction, Paris, 1755, but this book not found in the sale catalogue; Law Society, bookplate and stamp on title-page

Moreau 2153; Rép. bibl. xvie siècle, Rouen, Morin 56; STC 16199; Weale-Bohatta 1427

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Morin printed several Sarum Missals at Rouen, the first appearing in 1492 (Duff 323; Weale-Bohatta 1389); his name appears in the initial "M" on the title-page. As usually happens with pre-Reformation service books that survived in England, references to St Thomas a Becket have been crossed out, together with a few instances of "papa" (Pope). For another Sarum Missal by Morin, also with the same deletions, see lot 104, and for another Sarum work by Regnault, see lot 38 (Hours, 1538).