Large Gothic texture missal type in the 'Brandis' style, type 4:165G according to the Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke. 

Quire signatures in small Gothic typeface

One of the pieces was originally used as a spine support, judging by the long narrow hole cut into it and a small piece of thread still attached to it. 

Red rubrication and xylographic ornaments

Odense

The missal was probably used in a Danish church up until the Reformation in 1536/37, likely in the diocese of Odense or a neighbouring one. 

This missal was ascribed to the diocese of Ribe in Jutland at first, where Matthäus Brandis was active in 1504. Merethe Geert Andersen's view, that it was printed for Odense in 1501, is now generally accepted. However, the edition is still often referred to as Missale Ripense and dated 1504. It is only preserved fragmentarily. The surviving fragments come from the wrappers of 16^th and early 17^th century financial records and are now kept for the most part at the Royal Library in Copenhagen.

The missal fragments are associated with the binding of RARA Musik K 14 121, one volume of a series of paper manuscripts containing polyphonic music from around 1600. There were originally at least twelve volumes, of which five survive, distinguished by their RISM identifiers 121-125. K 14 belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.

Ole Kongsted hypothesises that the musical pieces in the host volumes were collected by Danish musicians who travelled to Italy around 1600s. How and when the books entered Herlufsholm is unclear, but the bindings were certainly made locally for the school, as the stamp on volume 124 indicates (Possess. Herlufs H.). They sport blind-tooled half-leather bindings with covers made of several reused parchment manuscripts. The outer fragments remain in situ, but further parchment fragments were originally inside the bindings as spine supports, but they were extracted during a bookbinding intervention in the 20^th century along with the wastepaper that made up the paste-laminate boards. The bindings are all stamped 1604, which cannot refer to the year they were bound, since among the extracted material from the original paste-laminate boards we find copious leaves containing writing exercises from Herlufsholm, dated 1624-26.