Live auction - Lot 858
[Plantin Press - Liturgy]
Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilij Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont.Max. iussu editum. Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex praecepto S.D.N. Sixti Papae Quinti.
Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1587
€ 300 / 500
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Lot description
8vo: xlv (= 45)-[19]-528-cx (= 110)-[1, 1 bl.] pp. (cut short, some soiling or staining, tear in X3 and Ii2 clumsily repaired).
19th-c. gilt polished calf, covers with gilt ornamental border and flowery corner pieces, gilt spine (rubbed, corners def., sticker pasted on lower endpaper).
Very rare Plantin Missal, issued with engravings (as here) or with woodcuts. Printed in red and black, in 2 col. Engr. title + 16 text engravings (some full-page, some with monograms), by Pieter van der Borcht, Abraham de Bruyn, Pieter Huys and Joannes Wiericx.
Ref. Voet (Plantin Press) 1701B. - BT 6334. - STC Dutch (BL) 122. - Not in Adams, Sorgeloos.