Christ Church Library music catalogue: Allestree J.8.7

Allestree J.8.7

Printed.

Allestree J.8.7
Rituale Romanum Pauli V. Pont. max. iussu editum.
Antwerp: Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum, & viduam Ioannis Moreti, & Io. Meursium, 1625

Upright format, 235 x 180 mm. Late-17th-century binding of brown leather over boards, blind-tooled with fillets. Manuscript annotations (non-musical) by Thomas Barlow (1608/9-1691; Lady Margaret professor of divinity, archdeacon of Oxford, and later bishop of Lincoln).

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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