Music, fine copy in blue morocco super extra, covered with blind tooling, gilt edges, in the antique style, £4. 10s Venetiis apud Juntas, 1561 8516 MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS, written in red and black on 8 leaves of STOUT VELLUM, with the Music in Neumes, hf. bd. £12. 12s A fine MS. containing a set of special services for the dead, which will not all be found in ancient missals. Its age is somewhat exaggerated in the following note which is written on a sheet affixed to the fly-leaf. "The MS. itself is not later than the period of Canute the Great or Edward the Confessor. It has the Musical Modulations indicated, but previous to the introduction of lines. The latter part, with the four-line Music, without score, is perhaps of the time of King John or not later than Edward the First. "The Domini Jesu Chsisti, on the second page, is a very perfect illustration of this kind of short-hand musical notation, the scales being marked like an arrow head. "This venerable MS. belonged to the Nunnery of Essen, which the Princess Cunigunda of Saxony, the last Abbess, surrendered to the Emperor Joseph the Second, in 1777." 8517 MISSALE secundum consuetudinem ROMANE Curie, cum Calendario, sm. 4to. printed in red and black, with the Music, rude woodcut of the Crucifixion, in the original oak boards, covered with stamped leather, protected with brass corners, £3. Venetiis, per Reynaldum de Novimagio, 1491 8518 MISSALE AD USU AC COSUETUDINE SARU, Folio, Black Letter, printed in red and black, with beautiful woodcuts and capital letters, two leaves of the Canon of the Mass on vellum, the margins of a few leaves repaired, and the word Papa and everything relative to St. Thomas a Becket obliterated with ink AN EXTREMELY RARE EDITION, OF WHICH ONLY THREE OTHER COPIES ARE NOTICED, viz. in the Bodleian Library, University Library, Cambridge, and in that of the Earl of Ashburnham, old russia, back full gilt, £105. Paris, opera Wolffgangi Hopylii impensis Francisci The Marriage Service is, as usual, in the quaint old English of the 8519 MISSALE AD USUM INSIGNIS ECCLESIE SARISBURIENSIS | NUNC RECENS TYPIS ELEGANTIORIBUS EXARATUM HISTORIIS NOVIS VARIIS AC PROPRIIS INSIGNITUM, etc. folio, Gothic letter, beautifully printed in red and black ink, with Music and numerous fine woodcuts and large capitals, two leaves of the Canon printed on Vellum, large engravings, one of the Crucifixion, the other of God the Father, very fine copy, notwithstanding a few small wormholes, in the original oak boards, re-covered by Broadbere, who has preserved the old stamped sides, gilt edges, with brass clasps and corners, the original sides stamped with several devices, including the fleur-de-lis, a portcullis, and the initials H. R. £80. 8520 Parisiis, apud Guillelmum Merlin-at end, Joannes Amazeur pro Guilielmo Merlin, 1555 another copy, not quite so tall, but altogether a fine one, bound in black morocco extra, gilt edges, tooled in antique style, by BEDFORD, £70. 1555 A copy wanting two leaves fetched at Sotheby's, in 1864, £85. The above two, which are perfect, are consequently cheap in comparison. This is beyond dispute the finest of all the editions of the Sarum Missal, and is also one of the 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 woodcut of God the Father, crowned with a papal tiara, and surrounded by the apostolical symbols, on the second vellum leaf of the Canon, "is a rare picture, and seldom found in printed Missals." The same accomplished critic, 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. As a 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 be my weddyd husbande to have et to hold fro thys day forwarde for bett' for wurs, for richere, for porer, in sikenesse & in helthe to be bonowr and buxom in bed & at bord tyll deth us departe yf holy chyrche wyl it ordeyne & thereto I plyght the my trouth 8521 MISSALE AD USUM ECCLESIÆ SARISBURIENSIS, stout small 4to. Gothic letter, printed in red and black, with the MUSIC noted, woodcuts, without the leaf signature t viii, very fine copy in old russia gilt, £24. Rothomagi, ex officina Richardi Hamillonis, typographi, venale in edibus Roberti Valentini, 1554 Besides these my own This edition is very rare, there being but two copies mentioned by Lowndes, one in the Bodleian, the other in the British Museum. notes record only two other copies. 8522 MISSALE AD USUM ECCLESIE SARISBURIENSIS (cum Calendario) sm. 4to. woodcuts, and Music, EXTREMELY RARE, brown morocco, gilt edges, by Bedford, £36. 8523 Lödini, J. Kyngsto et H. Sutton, 1555 another copy, 4to. brown morocco extra, by Bedford, £45. 1555 The rarity of this edition is such that Lowndes in mentioning it does not specify any copy as being known to him. The unusual name of Cæsaris Burgus is given to Salisbury in some quaint Latin verses on the title-page of these editions of 1554 and 1555; in which the purchase of this improved book is recommended to the priests. They begin thus: 8524 MISSAL. Sanctorum qui sancta soles intrare sacerdos Opus de celebranda Missa, secundum ritum sancte 8525 MESSAN pa Swensko, förbettrat, sm. 4to. woodcut title, and woodcut of the Crucifixion, hf. bd. £3. Stocholm, 1548 There is no name on the title, but at the end we have the words Tryckt aff Amund Laurentzson. It is very rare, having been probably suppressed a few years later. 8526 ORDINARIUS MISSARU sed'm majorem ecclesiam Colon, smallest 4to. (sq. 16mo.) with additional prayers written on 9 leaves of vellum, ca. 1520, calf, 20s Colon. Hermannus Būgart, 1505 8527 MISSA LATINA, quæ olim ante Romanam in usum fuit, ex vetusto codice descripta (ed. FLACCIO ILLYRICO), 12mo. morocco, 158 Argent. 1557 8528 MISSALE FRISINGENSE, folio, a fine work printed in black and red Gothic Letters, with numerous woodcuts, including the large Crucifixion, the Canon is printed on vellum, bound in the original stamped pigskin, £6. 158 Monachii, Adam Berg, 1579 The great rarity of the earlier Frisingen Missals is stated in the preface to have occasioned the publication of this new and corrected edition. 8529 MISSALE CONSTANTIENSE ad Romani formam revocatum, folio, woodcuts, the Canon printed on vellum on a sheet of eight leaves, with a fine large woodcut of the Crucifixion, calf, £2. Constantia, 1603 8530 MISSALE ROMANUM, Urbani VIII auctoritate recognitum, stout 8vo. LARGE PAPER, fine plates, old Dutch calf, 30s Antverpiæ, typ. Plantin. 1711 3. Breviaries. 8531 BREVIARIUM COLONIENSE, stout sm. 4to. fine copy in the original boards, numerous uncut leaves, £4. 8. n. (Coloniæ, Arnoldus ther Hoernen, about 1477) The copy in the Royal Library at the Hague is imperfect; since it is described in Holtrop's catalogue as containing 301 leaves, the last blank. The fact is that there are 302 leaves all printed on; and the last two quires are curiously signatured penultimate, in 8 leaves, of which folios 1, 2, 3, 4, are simply so numbered at foot; ultimate, in 6 leaves, of which the first three are signed a, b, c. 8532 BREVIARIUM ABERDONENSE. 2 very thick vols. 4to. BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK BY WHITTINGHAM, for the Bannatyne Club, with LAING'S PREFACE, 28 pp. cloth, £2. 16s 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 four copies (and no one of these altogether perfect) can be traced." 8533 BREVIARIUM secundum usum Ecclesia CURIENSIS: pars estivalis, folio, fine large woodcut on title, MS. notes, stamped hogskin, with clasps and finely-worked brass corner-pieces, £3. 108 Aug. Vind. E. Ratdolt, 1520 8534 TEUTSCH ROEMISCH BREVIER vast nutzlich und trostlich. Nämlich den Klosterfrawen . . . . auch der priesterschaft weltlich und ordenssleut. . . . mit ainem claren directorion, etc. stout sm. 4to. printed in red and black, with many woodcuts, including a set in the Calendar similar in character to those in the Calendars of French Livres d'Heures, ancient calf gilt, gilt edges, £12. Augspurg, Alexander Weyssenhorn, 1535 EXCESSIVELY RARE; as, independent of the damage caused by use, a book like this must have been obnoxious not only to the Reformers but also to the zealots amongst the Romish priesthood; and consequently seldom have escaped destruction. 8535 BREVIARIUM MONASTICUM secundum consuetudinem ordinis sancti Benedicti de observantia congregationis Coenobii sancti Benedicti Vallisoletani, small 4to. printed in gothic letter, in black and red ink, the margins of some leaves stained by damp, in the original binding, £21. [Valladolid] Didacus Fernandez de Cordova, in canobio sanctorum martyrum Facundi et Primitivi, 1512 8536 COMPENDIUM DIURNI (i.e., Liber Precationum Diurnarum), square 16mo. printed in Gothic Letter, in black and red, fine copy in the original stamped Venetian binding, £2. 88 Venet. And. de Asula & Barthol. Alexandrinus, 1483 4. Ceremonials. 8537 AGENDA Rerum Ecclesiasticarum, scdm. consuetum usum Minden. diocesis, sm. 4to. printed in red and black in large gothic letter, original binding of leather-covered boards, 188 Lipsia, Melchior Lotther, 1522 8538 AGENDÆ ECCLESIÆ MOGUNTINENSIS, per Sebastianum Archiepiscopum Moguntinum auctior et emendatior jam denuo typis evulgata, sm. folio, printed in red and black with large type, woodcut of the Crucifixion, in the original stamped hogskin, £2. 10s Moguntiæ, Francis Behem, 1551 8539 BAPTISMALE sive Cathechumenus juxta ritum Romane Ecclesie in quo etiam officia que apud egrotum atque defunctum fieri oportent, continentur, et alia multa, cum exorcismis, sm. 4to. printed in red and black, with the MUSIC, and some small woodcuts, in the original Venetian morocco binding, with the name of Sor Camilla Raimondina on the sides, RARE, £3. 3s Venet, hered. Junta, 1516 8540 PROCESSIONALE ad usus insignis ecclie Sar. observandos accōmodum, presertim in iis que in habendis processionibus ad cerimoniara splendoré faciunt imprimis opportunu, sm. 4to. printed in red and black, with woodcuts, and the Music throughout, calf neat, £50. Johannes Raynes, 1544 EXCESSIVELY RARE. Apparently only two other copies are known, one in the British Museum, the other in the Bodleian. Lowndes registers these as two separate editions, through an imperfect apprehension of the colophon in the Bodleian copy, which he or some one for him must have examined. The subscription states that this edition is reprinted with corrections (of course in London) by John Raynes, from the former edition printed by the widow of Chr. Ruremund (in Antwerp) sometime after 1528. 8541 PROCESSIONALE ad usum insignis ecclesie Sarisbu. observandos (sic) accommodum prefertim (sic) in iis que in habendis processionibus & ad cerimoniarum splendorem faciunt imprimis opportunu: iam denuo ad calculos revocatum et a multis quibus ipsum viciatum erat mendis purgatum atque tersum, sm. 4to. Gothic letter, printed in black and red, with all the MUSIC, some lower margins wormed, in the original calf binding, rebacked, £18. T. R. (Thomas Raynald), 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 (perhaps their difference consisted only in the varying title-pages added by the publishers), I can only find mention of four copies having occurred for sale during the past five and thirty years. 5. Chants, Antiphonaries, Hymnals. 8542 ANTIPHONAL. RESPONSORIA quæ annuatim in veteri Ecclesia de Tempore, Festis, et Sanctis cantari solent, additis aliis Canticis, 12mo. 150 leaves of Music, several leaves stained, original boards, £4. Noriberga, 1576 8543 GRADUALE Coloniensis Ecclesiæ, edd. Velten et Zensen, small folio, pp. 283 and xxxii of engraved Music and text, calf, with clasps, 78 6d Bonnæ, 1842 8544 PASSIONUM ET LAMENTATIONUM juxta Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ normam Liber fæliciter explicit; concinatus et in meliorem concentum redactus à Joanne Navarro Minorita Provinciæ Apost. Petri et Pauli Mechhuacanensis, etc. folio, a work of Church Music, printed in red and black, with the notation throughout, woodcuts, etc. no title, vellum, £15. Mexici, D. L. Davalos, 1604 The first Music-book printed in America. EXCESSIVELY RARE, and unmentioned by the bibliographers, although it is evidently, from the woodcuts, the bold Gothic type, and the imposing appearance of the Music, largely and boldly noted in black, on red lines, the most pretentious and magnificent work that had at that early period issued from the Mexican press. Mr. Bullen, of the British Museum, was a few months ago exhibiting photographic specimens of this work, taken from a copy which had just been discovered by Dr. Ernst, of Caracas, and which was imagined to be an unique treasure. 8545 AREVALI Hymnodia Hispanica, cum dissertatione de Hymnis Ecclesiasticis, 4to. calf, 24s Romæ, 1786 The introductory Dissertation upon Church Hymns is a long, learned, and interesting composition. 8546 CALAMATO (A.) HINNI SACRI del Breviario Romano, con le Quattro Seguenze del Messale, tradotti e comentati, 2 vols. in 1, 16mo. vellum, scarce, 30s Messina, 1629 The Latin Hymns of the Roman Church, with an Italian translation and Commentary. 8547 LIBER FAMILIARIS secundum Consuetudinem Monialium Sancti Laurentii Venetiarum: Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, folio, woodcut capitals and music, 4 leaves mended, morocco, gilt edges, £12. 128 Venetiis, Petrus de Liechtenstein, 1541 8548 KANCYONAL PIESNI NABOZNYCH (Hymns according to the use of the Roman Catholic Church, in Polish and Latin), oblong 12mo. calf gilt, RARE, £2. 28 Krakowie, 1721 |