Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Revue de l'Art Chr�tien, 1861, Vol. 5: Recueil Mensuel d'Archeologie Religieuse
D�j� au XVII si�cle on avait commenc� � consid�rer la. Composition typographique des Missels comme une branche fort lucrative; les libraires se pr�occup�rent moins de l'ex� cation convenable et artistique du recueil sacr� que de leur int�r�t personnel. D�s lors le livre liturgique, dont autrefois la d�coration avait �t� l'obj et de soins si minutieux et si patients, perdit peu � peu son expression s�v�re, son carac tere eccl�siastique, et fut rabaiss� par le calcul des �diteurs au niveau d'un in - folio ordinaire.
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