1951 MISSEL QUOTIDIEN VESPERAL ET RITUEL publiés avec la collaboration du R[everendissi]me D[omini] Bernard Capelle et des moines du Mont César (...).

140 MISSEL QUOTIDIEN VESPERAL ET RITUEL publiés avec la collaboration du R[everendissi]me D[omini] Bernard Capelle et des moines du Mont César (...).

Tournhout-Paris 1951, Brepols and Editions du Mont César, 1994 pp. +6 s.

The 2,000-page gilded so-called "missal," a prayer book for every Catholic consisting of several parts, and prepared in collaboration with the monks of the Abbey of Mont César, in Louvain, Belgium. Before the main text is a calendar of movable feasts for the years 1947-1970. The first part contains basic prayers. The second part consists of the Mass and the Vespers service. The next part is the liturgy of the word from the Old and New Testaments read for all the Sundays and major feasts of the liturgical year. A further part is prayers to the saints. In addition, antiphons, psalms and canticles, and the Stations of the Cross. The text is essentially parallel in Latin and French. A detailed table of contents can be found at the beginning of the text. The prayer book contains 10 full-page engravings with Jesus, Mary and the saints and with scenes from the New Testament based on the famous engraver Johannes Vierix (1549-1620). The prayer book matrix comes from the famous Brepols publishing house, founded in 1797 and boasting the title of papal publishers.

Period binding, full brown gilt and embossed leather in bdb condition; spine embossed and gilded with title; beautiful brown paper lining gilded with signets on binding leather; entire binding additionally in leathercase with lambskinon front cover and "FD" monogram on back cover; interior in bdb near fine condition; all page edges are gilded; overall bdb condition.