Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:: October 1871

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/4

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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last, as they ceased to be printed in 1557, shortly before Elizabeth’s accession to the throne. Most of the copies that survived the reforming rage of the sixteenth century were mutilated, and Mr. Maskell (Mon. Rit. I. Ixiv.) notices that the fine large wood- cut of God the Father, crowned with a papal tiara, and surrounded by the apostolical symbols, on the second vellum leaf of the Canon, “is arare picture, and seldom found in printed Missals.” The same accomplished eritic, in his work on Ancient Liturgies (pref. p. vii.), remarks in reference to all the old English service-books, that “ Of late years the demand for them has increased tenfold, and their price, always great, has naturally increased with the demand, so as to put them, when they do occur, beyond the reach of men who are nevertheless the most anxious to obtain them.” The last two sheets I and K are occupied by a curious Accentuarium to guide the priests in their pronunciation of the Latin tongue. Asa specimen of the English that occurs in the volume, it may not be out of place to quote here a portion of the marriage service—‘‘I N. take the N. to my weddyd husbdde to have et to hold fro thys day forwarde for bett’ for wurs, for richere, for porer, in sikenesse & in helthe to be honowr & buxum in bed & at bord tyll deth us departe yf holy chyrche wy] it ordeyne & therto I plyght the my trouth.” 1852 SARUM MISSAL (The) in English, with Introduction and eee 8vo. cloth, 10s 868 1852*Liturey of the Church of Sarum, with the Kalendar, translated ul preface and notes by Walker, with introduction by Carter, sm. 4to. cloth, 5s 1866 13538 PROCESSIONALE ad usum insignis ecclesie Sarisbu. observandos (sic) accommodum prefertim (szc) in lis que in habendis processionibus & ad cerimoniarum splendorem faciunt imprimis opportuni: iam denuo ad calculos revocatum et a multis quibus ipsum viciatum erat mendis purgatum atque tersum, sm. 4to. @athic letter, printed in black and red, with all the Mustc, some lower margins ‘wormed, in the original calf binding, rebacked, £21. TL. B. (Lhomas Raynald), 1555 the same, a very “fine copy in brown morocco super extra, antique blind tooling, gilt edges, by Pratt, from Mr. Corser’s library, £45. 1555 The Processionals are amongst the rarest of the English liturgical printed books, because in the first place, there were less of them needed for publication, and in the ' second place, they were most eagerly sought for and destroyed by the Protestants of Elizabeth’s reign, as, from their very name and nature, they were supposed.to be specially devoted to the idolatrous ceremonies of the Romish ritual. Of the several editions said to have been printed in the year 1555 of the above Processional, (per- haps their difference consisted only in the varying title-pages added by the pub- lishers), I can only find mention of four copies having occurred for sale during the past five and thirty years. 1354 BREVIARIUM Aberdonense. 2 very thick vols. 4to. BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK, BY WHITTINGHAM, bds. £2. 2s Maitland Club, 1854 — the same, 2 vols. 4to. printed for the Bannatyne Club, with Lare’s PREFACE, 28 pp. cloth, £2. 16s 1854 The Books of Ritual of the Scottish Church which were saved from destruction in the great Ecclesiastical revolution of the 16th Century, were very few ; and it has ‘so happened that through negligence in this country, or by reason of the civil tumults of France, the many Offices which were in use throughout the Dioceses of Scotland have become so rare, that only one Breviary and one Missal are now known to exist. The Breviary is that which was used in the extensive Diocese of Aberdeen, in the Province of Saint Andrew ; it was printed by Chapman, the first printer established in Scotland, in 1502 and 1510, but is now of such rarity, that no more than fowr copies (and no one of these altogether perfect) can be traced. Gallican; France, and Flanders. 1355 [LE BRUN DES MARETTES] Voyages Liturgiques de France, ou Recherthes touchant les Rits et les Usages des Hglises, par De Moléon, plates, calf, £1. 4s Paris, 1757 1354*