Canon Missae ad usum episcoporum, ac praelatorum solemniter vel private celebrantium [...].
Royal folio (315 x 450 mm). (4), 176 pp. With engraved title-page, engraved title vignette, 18 engraved vignettes in the text, 3 engraved borders, 15 full-page text engravings, and numerous engraved initials. Contemporary auburn morocco with green label to richly gilt spine; covers elaborately gilt with bishop's giltstamped armorial supralibros. All edges gilt; leading edges gilt. Coloured endpapers.
€ 2,500.00
Splendid missal bound for the personal use of an unidentified bishop. His arms in the supralibros have been superimposed with a different crest by a later owner (removed from back cover).
Text and notes printedin red and black throughout; the engraved plates depict scenes from the life of Christ, mostly signed by Carlo Grandi (cf. Thieme/B. XIV, 506).
Appealing binding, slightly rubbed and chafed; some browning and fingerstaining to interior.
Not in Weale/Bohatta.
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