Manuale ad usum insignis ecclesie Nanetensis, rationem administrandi sacramenta ecclesiastica continens : omnibus curam animarum habentibus utile ac neccessarium : authoritate R. in Christo P. & domini D. Antonii à Crequy ejusdem ecclesie episcopi, nuper impressum.
A 1556 printed Manuale for the church of Nantes, issued by the printer Mathurin Papolin under Bishop Antoine de Créquy, for parish priests who held the cure of souls and needed the rites of the sacraments. The four pages shown are black-letter text set in red and black with square-note plainchant on red five-line staves, each page headed by a red rubric such as Benedictio or Prosa, which gives a designer a tidy model for ruled music staves, red-and-black headings and dense early printed type.
