Resolving Muddles on Masses
HEYNLIN, Johann.
Resolutoriu[m] dubioru[m] circa celebrat[i]onem missaru[m] occurrentiu[m] p[er] venerabile[m] patre[m] d[omi]n[u]m Johanne[m] de Lapide ... Su[m]ma dubior[um] in hoc op[er]e resolutor[um] LXVI.
Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 1494.
Small 4to, pp. [64]; capitals highlighted in red and underlining in red to first half, large initial O supplied in red ink to p. [13]; small wormholes and small marginal tears to first 4 leaves, repair to corner of f. [27], small losses repaired to inner margin of last leaf, a little light foxing; otherwise good in twentieth-century vellum boards, title in ink to spine; contemporary ownership inscription at head of title ‘Joanni Hormair attinet’, contemporary marginal note to p. [28], manicule to p. [41].
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Resolutoriu[m] dubioru[m] circa celebrat[i]onem missaru[m] occurrentiu[m] p[er] venerabile[m] patre[m] d[omi]n[u]m Johanne[m] de Lapide ... Su[m]ma dubior[um] in hoc op[er]e resolutor[um] LXVI.
First Strasbourg edition of this work on the celebration of Masses by the German humanist and theologian Johann Heynlin (d. 1496), boasting on the title-page that it resolves no fewer than 66 queries on the subject.
Heynlin taught at Basel and Paris and is perhaps best known for helping to establish the first printing press in the French capital in 1470. In 1487 he retired to the Carthusian monastery in Basel and it was here that he composed the Resolutorium; it was first printed there in 1492 and proved extremely popular; ISTC records twenty-seven editions printed across western Europe up to 1500.
The text is arranged in ten chapters with queries and answers on: suitable ministers, convenient places, and appropriate times for celebrating Mass; the equipment required; the ceremonies to be observed both in action and word; bread and wine and their consecration; and the various divisions of the Mass. The contemporary marginal note to p. [28] relates to seven points on which a priest should examine their conscience before celebrating Mass.
BMC I 153; Bod-inc H-075; Goff J361; ISTC ij00361000 (recording four copies in the UK and seven in the US).
