Missal, use of Sarum, Paris, 1527, remboitage of contemporary panel-stamped English binding

Missal. Use of Sarum

Missale ad usum insignis ac preclare ecclesie Sarum. (Paris: François Regnault, 27 July) 1527

4to (204 x 140mm.), printed in red and black, three title-pages within woodcut border (containing the date 1525 and Regnault's initials and elephant symbols), first title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and illustrations, typeset music, early annotations, remboitage of a contemporary English panel-stamped binding over wooden boards (Oldham's QUAD. 3 on upper cover and HE.32 on lower cover), two clasps, textblock very frayed around edges throughout with some loss of text, lacking both straps

This copy has the usual crossing-out of the word "Papa" in the calendar and the section on Thomas a Becket. More interestingly, the text at the start of the Canon of the Mass has been amended to read "una cum famulo tuo rege nostro Henrico" (together with your servant, our king Henry) instead of "papa nostro" (our Pope).

The binding contains panels with the initials G.R., who can probably be located in London. Oldham states that this combination of panels is recorded on ten books from the dates 1523-1534. The saints depicted on the upper cover are St Claude, St Barbara, St Katherine and St John the Evangelist.

LITERATURE:

ESTC S121624 (listing 9 copies); STC 16208; Weale-Bohatta 1437