Missale valentinum.

MISSALE .

Missale valentinum. Printer: Johannes Hamman. Venice, 1492.

Size: 24.5 x 36 cm. 222 leaves (444 pages). Illustrated in several colours. Extremely rare incunabulum.

Book illustrated with a later picture, in several colours, representing a scene of the Stations of the Cross, Jesus on the cross, flanked by Saint John and Mary Magdalene.

Written in Latin, it covers the thirteen masses of Saint Gregory, and most importantly, it includes for the first time the sign for the blessing of the boundary of Valencia.

First Valencian missal, commissioned by the chapter from Venetian printers, due to a mistrust of the Valencians, some of whom were labelled as doubtful converts. It was financed by Andres de Mantua, patron admirer of the Valencian clergy.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1993. From the copy kept in the Biblioteca General e Histórica de la Universidad de Valencia.

-Edition of 3.000 copies, numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.

-Binding: Parchment on wooden board.

-Presentation case cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile and study in Spanish.

-Specially made laid paper.

-Study in Spanish conducted by José Esteve Forriol (Doctor in History and Classic Philology-Munich). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua I.