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Graduale ad usu[m] ecclesie Sarisburiensis. London and Paris: printed by N. Prevost for R. Redman at London and F. Regnault at Paris, 1532.
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GRADUALE, Use of Sarum
Graduale ad usu[m] ecclesie Sarisburiensis. London and Paris: printed by N. Prevost for R. Redman at London and F. Regnault at Paris, 1532.
A superb example of the last Sarum Gradual printed before the Reformation, preserved in a contemporary English blindstamped binding. This copy was evidently in the possession of a Reformer, who has crossed through references to the Pope and Thomas Becket in complicance with censorship regulations. One of only six copies recorded by ESTC, of which two (Westminster Abbey and Dundee) are fragments only. RBH/ABPC record no copies at auction. STC 15865.
Folio (398 x 275mm). Title within woodcut border, Regnault’s device on title and colophon, printed in red and black throughout, 25 large woodcuts, initials (D7v, D8 and a few words on title verso lightly crossed through, tiny marginal wormholes in last few quires, occasional minor dampstaining). Contemporary English blindstamped calf over wooden boards, tooled with heads in medallions [Oldham EBSB 786], clasps, binder’s waste from a 14th-century German manuscript on vellum (rebacked in 1897 by Zaehnsdorf retaining most of original spine, a few neat restorations). Provenance: contemporary pen trial referring to Penwortham, Lancashire and including name ‘Henry Warde’ to front pastedown – exhibited at An Exhibition of Printing, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1940 (slip loosely inserted).
Graduale ad usu[m] ecclesie Sarisburiensis. London and Paris: printed by N. Prevost for R. Redman at London and F. Regnault at Paris, 1532.
A superb example of the last Sarum Gradual printed before the Reformation, preserved in a contemporary English blindstamped binding. This copy was evidently in the possession of a Reformer, who has crossed through references to the Pope and Thomas Becket in complicance with censorship regulations. One of only six copies recorded by ESTC, of which two (Westminster Abbey and Dundee) are fragments only. RBH/ABPC record no copies at auction. STC 15865.
Folio (398 x 275mm). Title within woodcut border, Regnault’s device on title and colophon, printed in red and black throughout, 25 large woodcuts, initials (D7v, D8 and a few words on title verso lightly crossed through, tiny marginal wormholes in last few quires, occasional minor dampstaining). Contemporary English blindstamped calf over wooden boards, tooled with heads in medallions [Oldham EBSB 786], clasps, binder’s waste from a 14th-century German manuscript on vellum (rebacked in 1897 by Zaehnsdorf retaining most of original spine, a few neat restorations). Provenance: contemporary pen trial referring to Penwortham, Lancashire and including name ‘Henry Warde’ to front pastedown – exhibited at An Exhibition of Printing, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1940 (slip loosely inserted).
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