[Rarebooks] FS: Extremely rare Missal for the use of the Dominican Order. Rome: 1644

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CATHOLIC CHURCH. LITURGIES. MISSALE. DOMINICAN) MISSALE Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum... Approbatum Reverendiss. P. F. Thomae Turci... Rome: Manelphi Manelphi. 1644. Folio. (60),463,(1);cxix,(1)pp. Double column text. Finely engraved title page and 9 full page text copper engravings. Text with some woodcuts in a preliminary section on preparing for and officiating at a Mass. Text throughout printed in red & black. Some sections with printed music. Bound in contemporary red velvet, somewhat worn, and outer hinges with some splits, but the covers are holding fine. It appears that the binding was originally decorated with numerous bosses or jewels? on the covers & spine, now all removed. Title and preliminaries with some old water soiling, and occasional text soiling, but a decent complete copy overall. A.e.g.    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
A rare Missal (only extant copy?) for the use of the Dominican Order, edited by Thomas Turco (or, Turcus). Not recorded by OCLC. Not in the BL 17th Century Italian STC. Not in Weale-Bohatta. CATALOGUS MISSALIUM.

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