Christ Church Library music catalogue: Oq.7.3

Oq.7.3

Printed.

Oq.7.3
Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. pont. max. iussu editum, et Clementis VIII. auctoritate recognitum.
Antwerp: Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum, & viduam Ioannis Moreti, & Io. Meursium, 1627

Provenance: front flyleaf inscribed 'Hen[ry] Townshend', presumably the undergraduate of that name who matriculated Christ Church in 1668, aged 15. Probably then part of the library of Henry Aldrich; listed in the 18th-century manuscript catalogue of Aldrich's printed books (Christ Church, Library Records 11, f. 31r) as 'Missale Romanum / Ant. [1]627'.

Upright format, 203 x 130 mm. Mid 17th-century binding of black leather over boards, blind-tooled with fillets. Gilt edges.

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