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LATIN.
MISSALE ROMANUM. EX DECRETO SACROSANCTI CONCILIJ TRIDENTINI RESTITUTUM. VENICE: HEIRS OF MELCHIORRE SESSA, 1597 (COLOPHON: VENETIIS. APUD IO. ANT. RAMPAZETTUM, 1597)

4to (216 x 155mm.), title in red and black, some pages with music on 4 staves, 2 woodcut devices on title, small woodcuts, including calendar sequence and Biblical scenes, and 2 full-page woodcuts, rubricated throughout, woodcut initials, inserted frontispiece from an illuminated manuscript fifteenth century french book of hours, green morocco gilt by Waters of Newcastle, gilt edges, spotting to some pages

PROVENANCE

John William Pease, bookplate; Howard Pease, bookplate

NOTE

The frontispiece consists of a single vellum leaf (156 x 108mm.) from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, made probably in Rouen in the late fifteenth century. The large miniature shows the Visitation scene from the beginning of Lauds, the Virgin and Saint Elizabeth greet each other in a landscape, an angel stands on the left, a city in the distance, miniature in arched compartment (88 x 62mm.), above a large illuminated initial and three lines of text (opening of Lauds), chequered border featuring various flowers, grapes and birds, verso with fifteen lines of text (including the antiphon "assumpta est" almost unique to the Use of Rouen), illuminated line fillers, initials and a border of flowers in a pot, coloured acanthus leaves and small burnished gold leaves on black hairline sprays. Pease bought the miniature from the book dealers James Tregaskis and Son in 1922.