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MALDONADO, Joseph. Copia de la sentencia que el Gran Turco dio en primero de Abril deste ano de 1636, en favor de los Religiosos de nuestro Serafico Padre San Fracisco, en los pleytos de los Griegos.
Madrid, Juan Sanchez, [1636]. Folio (28 x 10 cm). [4] pp. Full description

[MALINES - SYNOD]. Decreta et statuta Synodi Provincialis Mechliniensis, die undecima mensis Iunii, anni millesimi, quingentesimi, septuagesimi ... Praesidente D. Martino Rythovio Episcopo Yprensi ... nomine et loco ... D. Antonii Perrenot, Archiepiscopo Mechliniensis, & ... Cardinalis Granvellani.
With: Die vigesima sexta mensis Iunii anni millesimi sexcentesimi septimi ... et vigesima die mensis Julii eiusdem anno conclusae. Praesidente ... D. Matthia Hovio Archiepiscopo Mechliniensi ...
With: (Decreta et statuta Synodi Dioecesanae Mechliniensis): die quinta Maij anni millesimi sexcentesimi noni inchoataev, & die sexta eiusdem anni & mensis absolutae. Praesidente ... D. Matthia Hovio archiepiscopo Mechliniensi.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin (vol. 1), Jan Moretus (vols. 2-3), 1571-1609. 3 editions in 1 volume. With Plantins woodcut compasses device on the title-page of the first work, incorporating the coat of arms of King Philip II of Spain, and another on the last leaf of the third work, and the woodcut coat-of-arms of Archbishop Matthias Hovius (1542-1620) on the title-pages of the 2nd and 3rd works; some fine woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties, with the manuscript title on the spine and front board. 79, [1]; 127, [1]; 76, [4] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - CHINESE RITES CONTROVERY - Lourenço de SANTA MARIA E MELO et al]. [Collection of manuscript anti-Rites oaths, from the years 1746-1767].
[Goa?, 1746-1767]. Folio. With 19 manuscript documents (18 in Latin, 1 in Italian) in different sizes, some with a papered seal.
19th-century brown paper boards from Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill Press, with the manuscript title on the spine. The work is housed in a clamshell box of gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, yellow cloth sides, and a brown paper lining. [51] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT]. DODOENS (DODONAEUS), Rembert. [Declaration of financial and other documents received as incoming churchwarden of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Mechelen].
[Mechelen], 27 December 1558. Oblong 4to (19 x 21.5 cm). A document written in dark brown ink on paper, with the opening words filled in afterwards in light brown ink and the signature in light brown ink. [1] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER AND HYMN BOOK - LATIN]. [Devotionarium].[Incipit leaf 2r:] Or[ati]o deuota q[ue] debet dici[t] i[n] ficem diei ante dormitione[m].
[Northern Germany(?), 15th century]. 8vo. Written in Latin on relatively thin parchment (leaf 11.5 x 8.5 cm, text block 7.8 x 5.2 cm), in a gothic hand in one column of 17 lines per page using black/dark brown ink. The manuscript is rubricated throughout, with a 3-line red and blue initial at the start of each part, and 2- or 1-line lombards, alternating in red and blue, at the start of each smaller section, ruled in pencil. Early 19th-century(?) gold-tooled vellum showing a gold-tooled floral frame on both boards, with a leather closing tie on the front, gold-tooled board eges, gilt edges. [131] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SPANISH - Vincent MORALES]. Compendio de la exemplar vida, y santa muerte, [d]el p[adre] Juan de S[an]tiago...
[Córdoba?], ca. 1770. 8vo. With a large engraving of Juan de Santiago on the second leaf and a pen drawing on page 102. Contemporary limp parchment. [4], "159" [= 162] pp. Full description

MARINI, Giovanni Filippo de. Relation nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao. [Part 2:] Histoire nouvelle ...
Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1666. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Later half sheepskin. [8], 327, [5], 329-436 pp. Full description

MARLOT, Guillaume (& FLODOARDUS REMENSIS). Metropolis Remensis historia ... [Title of vol. 2:] Metropolis Remensis historia. Sive supplementum Frodoardi, ab anno CMLXX. ...
Lille, Nicolas de Rache, 1666 (volume 1) & Reims, Protasius Lelorain, 1679 (volume 2). 2 volumes. Folio. With woodcut vignettes on the title pages, volume 1 with a full-page engraving and 6 half-page engravings. Further with woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Volume 1: gold-tooled calf (dated 1740), each board with the coat-of-arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI; volume 2: contemporary mottled calf. [14], 668, [16]; [8], 1-754, [2], 755-858, [2], 867-886, [28] pp. Full description

MATTEI, Giuseppe. Compendio della storia della persecuzione mossa contro la Cattolica religione nell' impero della Cina l'anno del signore MDCCLXXXIV.
Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. 8vo. Contemporary (?) vellum. 131, [1 blank] pp. Full description

MCFARLAND, Samuel Gamble, ed. Siamese hymnal.
Phetchaburi (in Thailand), Samuel Gamble McFarland, 1876. 8vo. With Western round-head letterpress music notation. Set in Thai type with incidental roman. This copy with the letterpress presentation slip on blue paper tipped in (from McFarland and his wife), for people who contributed to the project. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, probably bound for presentation. 148 pp. Full description