Missale ad usum ecclesie Ebroicensis
This is a late fifteenth-century printed Missal for the use of the diocese of Évreux, produced in Rouen by the printer Martin Morin for parish priests and clergy saying Mass. The pages are dense blackletter text set beside red-ruled plainchant staves with square notation, and each opening has hand-coloured initials, one with a woodcut of the Crucifixion between saints inside an arched border. A designer might take the interplay of heavy black type, red staff lines and decorative capitals as a model for a fine-press layout or a woodcut-framed title page.
