76/1848 [Missal]. "Scripti est hoc Missale per me Jacobû Jacobi alias Anthonij filiû. Anno divi 1588 duodecimo die Maij (...)." Manuscript missal, n.pl., 1588, (5 [calendar]),CIIII [recte CXIIII]; 147,(2) lvs., pen and black, red, blue and yellow ink, heraldic title-p. w. large coat of arms w. 3 stars on a shield suspended from a helmet on top of which a bird is perched and w. motto below title "fata manent omnes" [destiny awaits us all], 8 large dec. capitals w. flourishes over several staves (1x over the entire leaf), music in Gregorian chant notation on 5-line staves, text in littera textualis, mainly Latin text, final 14 leaves Dutch text, contemp. calf over wooden covers w. a central slender rectangular panel w. 3 floral ornaments surrounded by 4 (vaguely) blindst. borders w. 1) interlinked bunches of sprigs; 2) a motif of alternating portrait medallions and coats of arms; 3) interlinked bunches of sprigs; 4) sl. larger portrait medallions alternating w. floral ornaments, sm. folio.

- Title-p. doubled, creased and w. closed wormholes; some scattered minor wormholing; occas. fingersoiling in lower outer corner. Lacks clasps and catches (leather restored at spaces where clasps and catches were previously attached); lacks brass corner pieces; spine-ends restored.

= Provenance: apart from the scribe's name on the title-p., a contemp. manuscript owner's entry on the blank leaf preceding the calendar reads: "dit bouck hoort toe [...? (wormhole)] Cornelisz koster". Neither of these two men has been traced by us. A fine specimen of a 16th cent. manuscript manual with two very interesting contemp. manuscript pages at the end (possibly the orig. endpaper), containing practical instructions in pen and black and red ink on how to read the music notation, headed: "Disce manū tantū Si vis bene discere [cantum]". This is a quotation of part of a sentence from the medieval music theorist Hugo von Reutlingen's poem about the Cantus Gregorianus Flores cantus Gregoriani, which freely translates as "Teach the hand well if you wish to learn [singing]", a reference to the "Guidonian hand" which was a mnemonic device in the form of the hand that was used to assist singers in learning to sight-sing. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.