Bishop Tomicki's Missal is a printed

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from 1532. The missal was published in 1532 in

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by Peter Liechtenstein for the

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and was compiled at the request of Bishop

Piotr Tomicki Piotr Tomicki (1464 – 19 October 1535) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Przemyśl and List of Bishops of Poznań, Poznań, Archbishop of Kraków, Vice-Chancellor of the Crown, and Royal Secretary. Celebrated as one of the most important represent ...

. The most important elements of the

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were the same everywhere, but some local differences existed such as additional prayers or a different calendar of

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s, so this gave rise to the need to develop diocesan missals. One of the copies was in the Tarnowski collection in

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in Poland. The

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purchased the Dzików library in 2009. From May 2024, a copy of the missal is presented at a

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. The book contains 388 leaves in

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format and musical notation. It is printed in red and black. On the title page there is a

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depicting saints Stanislaus and Florian.

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{{Commons, Missale secundum ritum insignis ecclesie cathedralis Cracouiensis. (1532), Bishop Tomicki′s Missal *
Bishop Tomicki′s Missal
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