[MISSAL - LATIN].
Missale Romanum, ex decreto Sacrosancti Consilii Tridentini restitutum Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex praecepto S.D.N. Sixti Papae Quinti.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1587. 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.
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. XLV, [19], 528, CX, [2] pp.
€ 3,750
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. Belg. Typ. 6335; Imhof, Plantins 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.
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