missals

• I knew that a depiction of Mary reading was commonplace in Renaissance iconography, but his Mary seemed not only literate, but scholarly, perhaps because he depicted her seated before such monstrously huge pages and I could recall only octavo prayer books, missals, hours and the like, in other Renaissance paintings. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
• The psalters, missals, Bibles, chronicles and choir books of the 12th to 16th centuries from which these leaves were cut cost, and just for starters, one animal per page.
• They burned bibles, missals, prayer books, desecrated the tabernacle, destroyed the crucifix, the statues and icons. —  Spero News
• The fire destroyed the altar, the statues of Sts Peter and Paul, a Bible, missals, crosses and other precious holy items. —  Gates of Vienna
• We are sitting ducks out in a wilderness at the mercy of GPS guided missals, artillery, and ground to ground rockets. —  ORACULATIONS

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