Book containing prayers, benedictions, invocations, readings and instructions used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Mass. The basic service of the Mass contained in the Ordo missae (Ordinary of the Mass) consists of the Mass of the Catechumens, the Offertory, prefaces for the common masses and for high feast days, the Canon of the Mass, in which the bread and wine of the Eucharist are consecrated, and the Order of Holy Communion. Three additional sections provide the devotions required for special occasions. The Temporal (or Proper of Time) contains the feasts that occur on Sundays and are based on the events of the life of Christ. The Sanctoral (or Proper of Saints) contains prayers, lessons and recitations appropriate for the feast days of special saints occurring on set dates. By the end of the Middle Ages the sequence of feasts in both sections followed the order of the liturgical year, usually beginning with the first Sunday in Advent (the Sunday closest to 30 November). A third section, the Common of Saints, contains prayers, recitations and lessons for saints or groups of saints for whom there are no special commemorative rites or fixed feast days. The Missal might also contain special votive Masses, such as the Mass of the Dead, and a variety of other benedictions, hymns and special prayers.

• Missals
  • Bible, §I: Christian
  • Gothic, §IV, 2(i): Manuscript painting
  • Service book
  • individual manuscripts
    • Arcimboldi Missal (Milan, Bib. Capitolare, MS. II.D.I.13)
      • Matteo da Milano
    • Barozzi Missal (Padua, Bib. Capitolare, Inc. N. 260)
      • Bordon, Benedetto
    • Coronation Missal of Gian Galeazzo Visconti (Milan, Bib. Capitolare S Ambrosiana, MS. 6)
      • Anovelo da Imbonate
    • Frisingen Missal (untraced)
      • Breu: (1) Jörg Breu (i), §2: Augsburg, 1502 and after
    • Greiffenklau Missal (Baltimore, MD, Walters A. G., MS. W. 174)
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of Catherine of Cleves, §2: Dating and location
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of Zweder van Culemborg
    • Hahn Missal (Budapest, N. Széchényi Lib., Cod. Lat. 94)
      • Slovakia, §III: Painting and graphic arts
    • Hasenburk Missal (Vienna, Österreich. Nbib., Cod. 1844)
      • Gothic, §IV, 5(ix): Painting: England, c 1350–c 1410
    • Hildesheim Missal (private coll.)
      • Typological cycles, §2: 12th century and later
    • Lytlington Missal (London, Westminster Abbey, MS. 37)
      • Bohun
    • Mainardi Missal (Cremona, Bib. Stat. & Lib. Civ., MS. 188)
      • Nebridio da Cremona
    • Missal della Rovere (New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib., MS. 306; Turin, Archv Stato, MS. J.b.II. 2,3,4)
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the della Rovere Missals
    • Missale Hallense (Aschaffenburg, Hofbib., MS. 10)
      • Glockendon: (3) Nikolaus Glockendon
    • Missal of Arnold van Rummen (Brussels, Bib. Royale Albert 1er, MS. 9217)
      • Belgium, §III, 1(ii): Manuscript illumination, before 1400
    • Missal of Barbara of Brandenburg (Mantua, Mus. Dioc.)
      • Belbello da Pavia
    • Missal of Borso d'Este (Modena, Bib. Estense, MS. lat. 239)
      • Giorgio d’Alemagna
    • Missal of Cardinal Bertrand de Deux (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Cap. 63B)
      • Andrea de’ Bartoli
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Illustratore
    • Missal of Cardinal Ferry (Siena, Bibl. Com. Intronati, MS. XVI)
      • Vrelant, Willem
    • Missal of Clement VII (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 848)
      • Coëtivy, de
    • Missal of Henry of Chichester (Manchester, John Rylands U. Lib., MS. lat. 24)
      • Gothic, §IV, 4(iii): Painting techniques: Illumination, modelling and treatment of surface
      • Gothic, §IV, 5(i): Painting: Transitional style, c 1180–1250
    • Missal of Jacques de Beaune (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 886)
      • Bourdichon, Jean, §2: The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany and later works
    • Missal of Jean des Martins (untraced)
      • Quarton, Enguerrand, §2: Attributed works
    • Missal of Louis de Mâle (Brussels, Bib. Royale Albert 1er, MS. 1217)
      • Louis II, Count of Flanders
    • Missal of Richard Chambellan (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 879)
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Burgundian Prelates
    • Missal of Robert of Jumièges (Rouen, Bib. Mun., MS. Y.6)
      • Anglo-Saxon art, §IV, 2(i)(c): Religious manuscripts: Canterbury in the early 11th century
      • Winchester, §II: Centre of manuscript production
    • Missal of Sainte-Chapelle (Lyon, Bib. Mun., MS. 5122)
      • Jean le Noir
    • Missal of the Bishops of Paris (Paris, Bib. Arsenal, MS. 621)
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Bedford Master, §2: Workshop style and practice
      • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Bedford Master, §3: Localizing the workshop
    • Missal of the Madonna del Monte (Varese, Mus. S Maria del Monte)
      • Predis, de: (1) Cristoforo de Predis
    • Nouailher Missal (Poitiers, Cathedral Treasury)
      • Testard, Robinet
    • Rovere Missal see Missal della Rovere
    • Saint-Denis Missal (London, V & A, MS. 1346-1891)
      • Border, manuscript
      • Gothic, §IV, 5(x): Painting: France, c 1350–c 1410
      • Guillaume de Machaut
    • Sherborne Missal (London, BL, Loan MS. 83)
      • John de Siferwas
    • Stowe Missal
      • Clonmacnois Monastery
  • see also SACRAMENTARIES