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Missal.- Missale secundum consuetudinem aline eccl

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doule column, printed throughout in red and black, woodcut armorial device on title, woodcut illustrations including several decorative borders (some slightly shaved) and a large crucifixion scene (repeated) within decoartive border, numerous initials, musical notation, a couple of repairs to title but generally exceptionally crisp and clean, 19th century elaborately blind-stamped brown calf, upper cover detached, lower almost so, [not in Adams; not in Censimento 16 which cites another similar Missal dated 1555 with same imprint], folio, Venice, apud Andream et Jacobum Spinellos, 1554.

***A typographic tour de force..

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