Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362
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Sale 2362 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 11,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
(CATHOLIC LITURGY.) Missale Leodie[n]sis ecclesie. Full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion at the beginning of the Canon of the Mass. [16], 204, [32], 18, 104 leaves. Text and music printed in red and black throughout. Folio, 325x228 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, lacking backstrip, portions of leather on covers, catches, and clasps; marginal soiling through much of volume, occasionally heavy, light dampstaining in outer margin of opening leaves, clean tear across a8, few stains on b1, clean tear at bottom of x1, blank lower outer corner off [et]6, upper outer corner off ³a1 slightly affecting text, clean tear in same leaf; knotted vellum fore-edge tabs. Liturgical Epistle and Gospel passages in later hand on both sides of blank d4. Early scored inscription and old stamp of the Catholic University of Louvain on title. (Speyer: [Peter Drach], 1502)
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Fifth edition of the Liège Missal, one of a small number of copies known. VD16 M5586; Weale-Bohatta 513.