Missale romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilij Tridentini restitutum S. Pii V, Pont. Max. iussu editum.

Parisis, Ex officina Iacobi Kerver, via Iacobaea, sub signo Unicornis, 1582. At colophone: (Parisiis : per Iacobum Keruer, 1582 die 2. Ianuarij. Bound with: Missae propriae sanctorum qui in Hispania specialiter celebrantur. Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1577. Two works bound together. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). Contemporary limp vellum, edges stained red. ff. [40], 296, 60, for first work, ff. 26,[1, out of 2, last blank missing] for the second, printed in black and red, xylographic historiated head-letters, Kerver printer device at title page, 4-line staff musical notation. Signature: ã8 ē8 ĩ8 õ8 ũ8 A-2Q8 2R1 Aa-Gg3 Hh3 vol1, *4**4***4****4 (missing last blank) vol 2. Illustrated with 2 full page plates, 5 half page illustrations, numerous 6, 7 and 9 lines illustrations at the start of paragraphs. Some staining in the margin but a good copy of a rare missal.

Jacques Kerver (1501 - 1583) was the son of Yolande Bonhomme, one of the earliest important woman printers. Bonhomme continued her husband's printing shop after his death in 1522. She specialized in illustrated Books of Hours (private prayer books for lay worshippers). In 1526, she became the first woman to print an edition of the Bible. At the time of her death in 1557, her press was one of the most successful and respected in Paris. Jacques Kerver continues the business after his mother's death. Jacques Kerver obtained in 1582 (not without difficulty) the printing privilege of the bulla Inter Gravissimas, which marked the will to impose the Gregorian calendar on Europe and was the first to claim the privilege of religious impressions in France (April 13, 1572). After his death, the privilege was continued to his widow, and until 1595, to Sébastien Nivelle, Michel Sonnius, Thomas Brumen and Guillaume de la Noue.

In the Catholic liturgy, the Tridentine mass is that form of the Eucharistic celebration of the Roman rite promulgated by Pope Pius V in 1570 at the request of the Council of Trent, imposing uniformity on the rites of Mass, and maintained, with minor modifications, in subsequent editions of the Roman Missal until that promulgated by John XXIII in 1962. Indeed, before the Council of Trent there were many versions of the liturgy inside the Catholic Church of the Latin rite. Some were specific to particular nations or regions, others, to religious orders or brotherhoods. The structure was the more or less the same for all, but each had its own peculiarities such as typical prayers, invocations to specific saints, different dispositions of the fixed parts of the mass. All the Tridentine editions, while introducing some modifications, contained the text of the bull Quo primum tempore with which Pius V promulgated the first edition and had the same title Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, while the editions after 1969 have the title Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum.

[c.f. For first work: Only 1 complete copy a library : Biblioteca monastica dell'Abbazia S. Maria - Finale Ligure – SV (One incomplete copy is present at the Bibliothèque de Genève with 2 leaves missing; For second work: Only 3 complete copies: Universitat Rovira i Virgili CRAI, Universidad de Navarra, Katholieke Universiteit- Bibliotheek Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid, Leuven].