ABSTRACT
A substantial shift in liturgical policies took place at the turn of the century, particularly during the magistracy of Emery d'Amboise. For the history of printing of liturgical texts the period from the invention of printing to the Council of Trent covers roughly one hundred years. Before examining how the Hospitallers responded to the opportunities offered by the printing press, one observation should be made on the use of printing in the fifteenth century. The two Spanish editions were printed specifically for the house of the Hospitaller nuns of Sigena, in the province of Huesca, and they are representative of a different tradition. The breviaries included 373 editions for diocesan use, of which 84 were Roman, and 71 belonged to religious orders. In 1551 Cornelius, a Septemgrangiis, prepared a new edition both of the Hospitaller breviary, textually similar to the one of 1517, and of the Hospitaller missal.
