1694 ROMAN BREVIARY Plantin Press with engr. plate

Roman Catholic Breviary

c : Ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restituti, S. Pii V. Pont. Max. jussu editum, et Clementis VIII.... Urbani PP. VIII. auctoritate recognitum...Pars Aestiva.

antverpiae, Ex typographia Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1694.

Small 8vo. 6.5 x 3.8 cms

18 leaves, 536 pages, cxcvij, 1 leaf. Complete.

Copper engraved title vignette & 1 engr. plate. Printed in red and black throughout. Calender.Woodcut. Devices.

Original leather binding with raised bands and gilt numbering to spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

Plantinian press edition of the Roman Breviary.

The copper engraved plate depicts the singing and dancing king David preceding the Ark of the Covenant.

Written in Latin.

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Binding rubbed and worn at corner, edges, top to spine; Inside light even age toning with some marginal fingering & minor marginal staining (beginning & at end). Two small marginal faults old rebacked.

Some early manuscript notes to rear endpapers. Dated manuscript Ex Libris to front inner board.

ANTIQUARIAT Daniel Good, Beromunster - Switzerland