Live auction - Lot 846
[Missal - Liège imprint]
Missale romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilij Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum.
Liège, H. Hovius, 1574
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
4to: xlvi-[18]-252-lxxx-120-80 pp. (blank bottom margin ff. ****1-2 torn, some spotting & soiling).
Contemp. calf, covers with gilt center piece within double blind-ruled frame with gilt corner pieces, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, mod. leather title label (exp. rebacked, rubbed).
Rare Liège missal. Woodcuts: ill. on title representing St. Peter and St. Paul, 20 sm. ill. in text and 1 full-page ill. Printed in red and black, in 2 col. With musical notation.
Ref. BT 2130. - Weale-Bohatta 1185 (this copy). - de Theux 11-12. - BCNI 3462. - Pettegree NB 10779. - Opac KBR. - Not in Adams, Machiels, Matagne (Namur).
Prov. "J. Allen, Trinity College Cambridge, 10 July 1765" (ownership entry on title).