MISSAL, use of the Cistercian order. Missale ad usum Cisterciensis ordinis. Paris: Jean Petit, 1516.

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MISSAL, use of the Cistercian order. Missale ad usum Cisterciensis ordinis. Paris: Jean Petit, 1516.

8° (185 x 120mm). Collation: A a-o8 p4; A-K8. Gothic type, double column, printed in red and black, musical notation, large metalcut device on title; illustration of King David on verso of A8 and Crucifixion cut on verso of l8, numerous other small illustrations and historiated initials. (Occasional light soiling.) Later calf over wooden boards, two pairs of conjugate leaves from an early English-Latin grammar bound as endpapers (binding worn). Provenance: calendar annotated in an early English hand; unidentified Jesuit (inscription: D.E.(monogram) Soc. Jesu).

The endpapers are from an edition of Robert Whittinton's Vulgaria, printed by Pynson or Wynkyn de Worde between 1520-1533. Weale/Bohatta 1759; Alès 269

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