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Sarum Missal 4 December 1497
38.9 x 27.5 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1057923
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
Roman Catholic Church
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum 4 December 1497
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This Missal, or service book for the Mass, is one of the rarest items presented to George III by Jacob Bryant. It is one of seven extant copies (of which four are incomplete) and the only surviving copy printed entirely on vellum. It was produced in Rouen, the third most prolific printing centre in France, after Paris and Lyon, for the English market. The Use of Sarum (the form of the Mass used in Salisbury and its neighbouring dioceses) was not common outside England, but was the most widely accepted Use within England until the Reformation. Its most striking deviation from the Roman rite was its elaborate ceremonial, particularly in the rituals leading up to and during Easter, when several imposing and colourful processions were staged.
Catalogue entry adapted from George III & Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste, London, 2004Provenance
Presented to George III by Jacob Bryant, 1782 (item 27 of Bryant‘s list)
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Measurements
38.9 x 27.5 cm (book measurement (conservation))
38.9 cm (Height) x 27.5 cm (Depth) (book measurement (inventory))
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Other number(s)
ISTC : Incunabula Short Title Catalogue – ISTC im00721000ESTC : English Short Title Catalogue Citation Number – ESTC S113344Alternative title(s)
Missale Saresbueriense (Salisbury), sive Missale secundum Sarum
Incunable, or book printed between 1450 and 1500, bound in brown calf with onlaid black calf central panels, with George III's arms, rebacked. Laced on boards with 6 raised bands.
The volume is open at the page for the celebration of Easter Day. In the large woodcut illustration the resurrected Christ is shown emerging from a coffin, with the marks of the nails in his hands and feet (the Stigmata). Saints Peter (bearded) and John stand to the left of Christ and the Three Maries stand to the right, each holding their cask of ointment, which they had brought to anoint the dead body of Christ. The soldiers set to guard the tomb lie sleeping at the foot of the picture, and Jerusalem appears in the background. The two angels in the lower border hold an empty shield, which could have been used by an owner of the book to fill in his own coat of arms.
Place of Production
Rouen [France]
