Missale Sagiense
Missale Sagiense is a 1500 incunable missal, a liturgical service book for the Church of Sées, printed in Paris by Pierre Regnault and held by the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. Its two woodcuts are framed inset blocks set beside the Latin text in black letter, with the initial rubric beside each. The first shows a skeletal Death figure with a scythe and crowned victims, a stark medieval memento mori; the second shows a kneeling priest at an altar with attendants, a crowned figure above, and a checkered floor, useful for dense, formal ecclesiastical composition.
