#missal

[upennmanuscripts]

This Missal (Texts for the Mass), written in Gothic textualis script, contains a few large red and blue initials with penwork, and a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary below on the left and John the Evangelist on the right. Written in northern Italy, between 1375 and 1425; Crucifixion miniature possibly added in southern Germany in the second half of the 15th century. The binding is very early; it may even be original (UPenn Ms. Codex 2053)

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[austerity-audacity-asceticism]

found my great grandmother’s copy of the Saint Joseph Sunday Missal

[thebeautifulbook]

CATHOLIC MISSALE ROMANUM (1889) with a magnificent binding made of gold-plated copper and brass. It is adorned with 180 cultured pearls and 68 precious stones (rubies and sapphires of simple quality, tourmalines, chrome diopsides, aquamarines, iolites, citrines, tiger's eyes, amethysts, phrenites, moonstones, smoky quartz, rock crystals and colored rock crystals, carnelian and much more). There are only 8 syntheses: the 4 large red corner stones and 2 smaller red stones in the binding as well as the 2 red stones in the book clasps are synthetic rubies - so-called corundums.

In 2008, this museum-quality treasure bindilng was created by the Fa. Schmuck-Werk goldsmiths in the style of the High Middle Ages. There is no exact historical model for this extraordinary book cover, which is unique in the world. However, all of the details, such as the shape of the filigree or the shape of the various gemstone and pearl settings, were inspired by actual medieval book bindings.

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[cuties-in-codices]

garden party

in the margins of a liturgical manuscript (missal, use of sarum), england, mid-15th c.

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 302, fol. 210r

[houghtonlib]

Music a millennium old

Fragment of a missal, a book containing the texts for celebrating Mass, from approximately 1000 CE. The smaller text is a passage of Gregorian chant with neumes, an early form of musical notation.

MS Typ 773

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[stone-cold-groove]

Front panel of a St. Joseph Daily Missal insert - 1957.

[the-first-man-is-a-cat]

Missal of St. Denis (1041-1060)

[tinyshe]

I have an old 1943 Catholic daily missal. The cover is "pebbled" black, myb leather. It's getting sort of stiff. Should I make a book cover or complete soft slip cover? I still want to be able to use it occasionally but do not want to damage it. Suggestions please