Missel

1587 · rif. ABC_48453 — Antwerp: Christoffel Plantin 1587. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards sewn on 4 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine the manuscript title in the first compartment and the original manuscript shelf mark label "H.36" of the Monastery of Buxheim in the fifth compartment both boards with an ornamental roll and a roll with the portraits of Salvater sic! Maria S. Bruno and S. Johannes in a panel design two original brass clasps and catches ornamented with a small star leather tabs and six original bookmarkers plaited into a big knot. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette with Peter and Paul by Peeter van der Borcht on the title page 6 full-page woodcuts ca. 112 x 75 mm by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht 6 half-page square woodcuts 55 x 55 mm in border one signed by Antoon van Leest one woodcut 90 x 76 mm by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht and 2 smaller oval woodcuts. The work is printed in red and black. Plantin edition of the revised Roman Missal following the directives of the Council of Trent first published in Rome in 1570 by order of pope Pius V 1504-1572 and later approved by Clemens VIII 1536-1605 and Urbanus VIII 1568-1644. The work was quite popular as Plantin published a new missal nearly every year from 1571 onwards. All editions were printed in different sizes and in two issues one with woodcut illustrations and one with engravings. The present copy is the octavo edition with woodcut illustrations and comes from the library of the famous Carthusian monastery of Buxheim Maria Saal near Memmingen Bavaria.The monstery of Buxheim was founded in 1402 and dissolved after the secularisation in 1803. The rich library was auctioned in 1883 by Förster and in 1884 by Ludwig Rosenthal in Munich. The Museum of the Charterhouse Buxheim today is actively studying the history of the library and the present location of its books and manuscripts. The present copy is bound in contemporary pigskin which was likely bound for the monastery itself as the rolls depict Saint Bruno who was the founder of the Carthusian order. The Missal is therefore probably bound in a South-German bindery in the surroundings of the monastery.With an ownership annotation on the title page "Cartusiae Buxheim". The binding is somewhat rubbed and soiled. The leaves are lightly browned some of the leaves are slightly stained especially around the leather tabs. Otherwise in good condition.l Belg. Typ. 6335; Imhof ‘Plantin’s 1574 Missale Romanum in octavo’ in: De Gulden Passer 73 1995 pp. 67-82; Nagler I 1459; USTC 406791; Voet 1701 A; Weale-Bohatta no. 1269; not in Haebler. Christoffel Plantin, hardcover