Missale Romanum
Subtitle: post omnes alias impressiones recens faciliori & miro quodam ordine ad commoditatem sacerdotis apte distinctum ...
Publisher: [Heirs of} Petrus Liechtenstein
Published: 1549
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Missals -- Early works to 1800
Work titles: Missale Romanum.
Notes: 40 lines in double columns, Canon in 30 lines; headers and footers; Gothic type in red and black,  musical notation in black on red printed staves.

Woodcut of Annunciation on title, publishers' small circular device; full-page Annunciation woodcut on leaf 8 verso surrounded by four-piece historiated woodcut border showing the Last Supper, the Resurrection, the Evangelists and the Sibyls; full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion to the Canon; 6 small woodcuts in the text; 208 historiated initials in various sizes; four clasps removed.

Weale-Bohatta 1109; Essling, Missels 123.

Contemporary Italian dark maroon morocco over wooden boards, the sides richly decorated in blind with fillets, roll-tooled borders, leaf and flower tools (as in Bolognese bindings: see De Marinis Legatura artistica 1317 and 1368, plates CCXXV and CCXXXIII), a central rhombus containing a large arabesque ornament; spine with alternating single and double bands.

Early library stamp and ownership inscriptions of a convent at Brescello, on the River Po; early printed book label of the Carmelites at Turin.

Purchased before 1985.