Description:
Missale Romanum, ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum. Venice: Paulus Balleonius, 1711. Large quarto, title page printed in black and red, illustrated with copper-plate title vignette and three full page plates engraved and signed in the plate by Italian artist Sister Isabella Piccini (1664-1732); printed in black and red in two columns throughout, with printed music, bound in full contemporary morocco, tooled in gilt, with added woven ribbon page markers and an elaborate ribbon page marker inserted, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.
[cross]8, 2[cross]10, A-Z8, Aa-Ee8, Ff6, a-d8, e10; twenty-five leaves of later masses published in by the authority of the Archbishop between 1715 and circa 1777.
Estimate $300-500
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