Missal

Description

Title: Missal
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1499]
Publication Place: Prague
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a Missal, containing Masses and prayers for various occasions, a Benediction and Exorcism, and Liturgical notes
Description: Script: copied by a single hand in a bold Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Formata
Binding: Contemporary quarter binding sewn on three double cords: blind-tooled brown leather and wooden boards. One engraved brass clasp attached to the rear board, with an engraved brass catch on the front board. On the spine, two later parchment(?) labels carrying the shelfmark “E 40.” The binding is strengthened by means of a lead from an eleventh century biblical manuscript on parchment.
In Latin.
Provenance: Collection of Karel Zajiček. Armorial bookplate with the device “Imitare quam invidere” of the Albert H. Childs, Yale '61, Memorial Collection at Yale University Library.
Extent: ff. 123 : 210 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Czech Republic 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: Paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Missals
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Missals
Czech Republic > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Missal. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.