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Allestree J.2.15

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Allestree J.2.15
Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. pont. max. iussu editum, et Clementis VIII. auctoritate recognitum.
Paris: Apud Nicolaum de la Vigne, 1625

Upright format, 290 x 210 mm. Mid-17th-century binding of brown leather over boards, blind-tooled with ornamental borders.

Provenance: from the library of Richard Allestree (1621/2-81), canon of Christ Church and regius professor of divinity. For information about Allestree, see The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For a brief description of Allestree's library, which was donated to Christ Church on his death for use by his successors as regius professor of divinity, see W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), pp. 14-15.

Not included in the standard microfilm series.

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