Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256
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Sale 2256 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(MISSAL.) Missale p[rae]dicatoru[m]. 16 (of 29) full-page woodcut illustrations, including 2 repeats; profusion of small text illustrations, historiated or decorated initials, and border vignettes. [1] (of [20]), 1-155 (of 308) leaves, comprising the complete Temporale and Canon of the Mass; lacks the title, following 18 preliminaries, Sanctorale, and Common of Saints. Text and music printed in red and black throughout. 4to, remboîtage of contemporary blind-tooled morocco over wooden boards with panel of vertical rosette and quatrefoil rolls on covers, crude early rebacking, later metal catches, lacking clasps; dampstaining in upper outer corners throughout with varying paper corrosion and some traces of mold toward end, slightly affecting border or foliation on some leaves. Later 19th-century bookplate of the Marchese Luigi Ordono de Rosales Cigalini ("Biblioteca Rosales Bernate"). [Florence: Luc'Antonio Giunta, 17 March 1512]
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Substantial fragment of a scarce and richly illustrated Missal for Dominican use. Weale-Bohatta 1831.