Peter recently had the opportunity to see and photograph an especially fine altar missal which is owned by the church of St John Cantius in Chicago. It was printed by the Pustet firm, based in Regensburg, Germany, in 1863, and is remarkable not only for the very large number of images, but the fact that they are in color. (I own a two-volume lectionary which was part of the same print run, and which has many of the same images, but all in black-and-white.) Most of these pictures appeared on his substack Tradition and Sanity a few days ago; I thank him for letting us reproduce them here. (There are definitely enough of these to make more than one post.)
The original binding is very well preserved; the metal knobs in the corners are called bosses, and help to prevent wear and tear on the leather cover.
First title page
Second title page
The order of incensing the oblata...
and the altar.
The beginning of the Temporal cycle, the first Sunday of Advent.
The first Mass of Christmas
The Circumcision
The Epiphany
The first Sunday of Lent
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
The Exsultet, with the older style of musical notation which was changed by the reform of the chant begun under St Pius X.
The Ordo Missae
The beginning of the Nativity Preface in the solemn tone.
The Canon
Easter Sunday
The Ascension
A series of very nice decorative footers, inserted to fill out the space left at the end of a page so that it isn’t left blank.
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