27th Feb, 2025 11:00

Books & Works on Paper
 
Lot 28
 

Missale ad usum ac consuetudinem Sarum. 1541

Missale ad usum ac consuetudinem Sarum.
printed in red and black throughout, title-page with large woodcut illustration within woodcut border, woodcut initials and illustrations, typeset music, references to Thomas a Becket crossed through, leaves v3-4 with the Canon of the Mass printed on vellum with a full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, early mss annotation to lower margins of v3, v4 and verso, woodcut border to A1 and [2]A1, large woodcut on final verso (defective), early wooden boards with modern calf spine, clasps, one detached but present, first two quires skilfully repaired at edges with around a quarter of the title-page in facsimile, lacking k2, repairs to leaves v5-6 and quire x and [2]D3-4, final quire with extensive skilful repairs with loss of text, some worming, Ampleforth Abbey bookplate to front endpaper, folio, . [Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl and Franciscus Birckmann in London, 28 November 1514] Sold not subject to return.
***Provenance. George Lawson (c. 1493-1543), alderman of York, inscriptions on v3-4 (he was seemingly a Protestant with connections to Thomas Cromwell, who assisted him in acquiring monastic properties after the Dissolution);

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