Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
3rd June 1873
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/10
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LOT 645 Milton’s Paradise Lost, LARGEST PAPER, PROOFS of the ILLUSTRATIONS after MARTIN, 2 vols, in I, morocco extra, joints, gilt leaves 1827 646 MISSALE AD USUM ECCLESIZE SARISBU- KIENSIS»] PRINTED. IN RED | AND BLACK, GOTHIC LETTER, ON FINE PURE VELLUM ; woodcuts, ornamented capitals, and some borders, morocco extra, antique style Parisys, per Prevost, 1527 This is undoubtedly the most sumptuous edition of the Salisbury Missal ever produced, but folios 73 and 155 are wanting, and the fore edge margins of some few leaves have been cut off, though without affecting the text. 647 MISSALE SECUNDUM CONSUETUDINEM ORDINIS Vallisumbrosz, zz large Gothic Type, red and black, NUMEROUS WoopDcuUTS, PRINTED UPON VEL- LUM, russia. Per nobilem et egregium virumdominum Lucam Antonium de Giunta Florentinum, summa diligentia Venetits, MCCCCCIII. * * THIS IS THE MOST SPLENDID PRODUCTION OF THE JUNTA PRESS, AND IS OF THE GREATEST RARITY, WHEN PRINTED UPON VELLUM. Even the existence of it was unknown to Bandini, the historian of the Junta Press. The title-page is ornamented with a whole-length Portrait of Gualberti, the founder of the Monastery of Valembrosa, and compiler of this Ritual. The Missal is accompanied with Musical Notes, and enriched with a series of beautiful Engravings on wood. Dr. Dibdin thus describes the volume in his “ Bibliographical Decameron,” p. 38 :—“It is printed quite at the commencement of the XVI. cent. The amplitude of the page, the size and variety of the types, the lustre of the inks, the tone and substance of the vellum, but above all, the pure Arabesque taste of the Decorations, to say nothing of the rarity and curiosity of the impression, all combine to render this volume an acquisition extremely precious to the collector. Jf ever the magical art of Printing was calculated to produce enthusiastic sensations, such sensations cannot fail to be felt on a careful examination of this book.” For a Life of Gualberto, Founder of the Monastery of Valembrosa, see post, under Vita (Lot 767), where will be found a copy printed by Giunta, on vellum.
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