GERRIT VANDER GOUDE.

Unrecorded edition, Dit is die beduydenisse der missen.

      Willem Vorsterman, (ca. 1530)., Antwerp, - Small 8vo. 19th century calf, spine ribbed with red title-label, red mottled edges Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut printer's device on verso of the last leaf, two woodcuts of the office of Mass on title and verso of the title, some woodcut initials coloured by hand, and 69 woodcuts in text, illustrating the life of Christ, his passion and resurrection, all fully and nicely coloured by hand; text rubricated throughout. (152) lvs. Unrecorded edition by Willem Vorsterman at Antwerp, of a very popular devotional work, explaining and depicting the office of Mass and other sacraments to the common people. First published at Gouda in 1506, it was several times republished at Antwerp by various publishers, mostly under the title: Boexken van der missen. Nijhoff-Kronenberg lists two Vorsterman-editions under the present title, one dated 1538, and another undated, probably published in 1529, but both show spelling differences and another typeset compared with our edition. The full sub-title reads: "Hier begint een devoet boecxken, seer profitelic allen goeden kersten menschen. Als hoe men salichlick sal biechten. Ende hoe men eerwaerdeliken ten heylighen sacramente gaen sal met anderen profitelike leeringhen ende ghebedekens daer in besloten: Ghemaeckt ende geordineert bi broeder Gheerit vander Goude, minrebroeder vanden observanten ghenoemt". Whether the author is identical with Guilhelmus de Gouda, who published a much shorter Latin Tractatus de expositione misse. Editus a fratre Guilhelmo de gouda ordinis minorum de observatia, of which many incunable editions were published, both in the Northern and Southern Netherlands, is uncertain but probable. Nijhoff-Kronenberg however, treats them as two different people, and lists the one Latin edition published after 1500, at Deventer in 1504, under Guilielmus de Gouda, without reference to Gerrit vander Goude. Also special and very attractive about our copy is that all the charming woodcuts were nicely coloured by hand at the time. Good copy of an unknown edition.- (With old ms. owner's name on fly leaf; traces of use; several small restorations to the woodcuts and the leaves; sl. thumbed). Cf. Nijhoff-Kronenberg 987 (similar ed., dated 1538); idem 4233 (similar ed., dated ca. 1529); STC Dutch p. 85 (Vorsterman ed., dated 1538); no Vorsterman ed. in Machiels.