Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Missale ad usum insignis ac preclare ecclesie Sa[rum].

Accession number
PML 18384
Published
Impressum Parisiis : per Fra[n]ciscu[m] Regnault, Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo vigesimoseptimo, die vero .xxvij. Iulij [27 July 1527].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Collation: 7 prelim. leaves; leaf 1 (with cut)-cxlii (full page cut on verso of leaf cxix; sig. Sax. q. irreg. numbered); leaf 1 incipit proprium festivitatem sanctorum (with cut and border)-leaf lxii; leaf 1 Incipit commune sanctorum proprium non habentium (cut and border)-leaf lii.
Printed in red and black with woodcuts.
Several full-page woodcuts within borders, many small cuts, historiated initials. Title page border dated 1525 in left and right panels.
Description
[7], cxlii leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Death of Thomas Begwood recorded in calendar on 24 March: "Obit[us] Thome Begwood [illegible]." Birth date of Wyboro (Wyborow?) Slade recorded in calendar: "[??] that Wyboro Slade was borne the iiiith daye of Iuno an[no] d[omi]ni 1535 [4 June 1535] an[no] [??] Henr[ico] oct[avo] xxvijth." All references to popes in calendar and text scraped away.
Provenance
William Raves (of Reeves?), purchase inscription: "Constat Gulihelmo Raves capillano" (colophon and rear endleaf); Henry White (d. 1836), signature and date: "Henr. White Lichfeld: Maii xviii MDCCCXV" (front endleaf) and "Henr. White, Lichfeild[en], June 22 1806" (rear endleaf); Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846), blue armorial stamp (front endleaf, verso of titlepage, and under the colophon); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Sept. 1908.
Binding
16th-century English blind-tooled calf, over wooden boards; rebacked and repaired by Duprez Lahey. The upper cover has the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and the lower the arms of Henry VIII, supported by a dragon and a greyhound, with the Tudor rose and portcullis emblems. An early 20th-century description of the binding suggested that it was possibly produced in France and stamped with English armorials once in England.
Classification
Department