Ventes live - Lot 957
[Plantin Press - Missal]
Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum.
Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1587
€ 500 / 700
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Description du lot
8vo: [64]-528-cx-[1] pp. (some minor soiling or spotting).
Cont. blind-stamped pigskin over wood, spine on 4 raised bands titled in ink, edges bevelled inside, metal clasps and catches, leather tabs, 5 cloth markers tied in a knot at top (sl. soiled). Good copy.
Rare Plantin octavo missal with woodcuts: ill. with St. Peter and St. Paul on title, and 6 full-page, 7 half-page and 2 smaller illustrations. The space for the half-page ill. on p. 517 is left blank. The full-page woodcuts are signed P.B. A.VL., referring to Assuerus van Londerseel who did woodcuts after P. van der Borcht. Entirely printed in red and black, in 2 cols. Ref. Voet (Plantin Press) 1701A. - BT 6335. - BCNI 3950. - STC Dutch (BL) 122. - Pettegree NB 10803. - Weale-Bohatta 1269. - Nagler I:1459. - Anet (1). - Not in Adams, Sorgeloos, Machiels. Prov. Ownership entry on title of the "Cartusiae Buxheim.", i.e. the famous Buxheim Charterhouse of Memmingen (Bavaria).