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MISSALE ROMANUM

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MISSALE ROMANUM
Summa revisum diligentia, ac novissime impressum, duas in partes distinctum. Venice, Heirs of Luke Antony Junta, 1564. In-folio, red morocco on ais, cold decoration consisting of a wide border of Aldine irons intersecting to form a central diamond of four spandrel compartments, with a figure of Jesus Christ in the centre, brass clasps, lining of handwritten leaves (period binding).
Beautiful missal printed in black and red on two columns, decorated with a multitude of initials and 213 woods of various sizes, the largest
being 20 lines
high
.

Full wood at the beginning of the text, depicting the Crucifixion, repeated at the head of the Canon, the first page of which is placed in a frame composed of beautiful

historiated

woods

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Junta's type mark printed in red on the title and on the colophon. Music noted

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Marginal wetness reaching the bottom of the first 30 leaves. Restorations at the bindery.