Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MISSALE ROMANUM ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. Pontif. Max. jussu editum. Cum Kalendario perpetuo Gregoriano, de licentia Auctoris. Woodcut of the Annunciation on title; woodcut illustrations of occupations at top of each page in calendar; full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on P1v; another of Christ with saints on V5v; numerous small woodcut historiated and decorative initials. [26], 253, [1] leaves. Text and music printed in red and black throughout. 4to, 19th-century calf, spine ends chipped, covers detached; some dark marginal dampstaining, preliminaries loose, title soiled, with 19th-century signature. Arthur Edwin Neergaard bookplate. Venice: (heirs of Francesco Rampazetto for) Giovanni Battista Sessa, 1583 [colophon dated 1580]

Additional Details

Includes an early printing of the Kalendarium Gregorianum perpetuum, which was originally published the year before following the Papal Bull promulgating calendar reform. bound with: Missarum proprium festorum Ordinis fratrum minorum. Quas . . . Gregorius XIII pont. max. anno Domini, MDLXXXIII . . . approbavit [etc.]. 12 [i. e., 10] leaves. Venice: apud Juntas, 1585 [i. e., 1586].