A. Version with copper engraving-illustrations. No copy known B. Version with woodcut-illustrations.
| Record ID | cp013159 |
| Voet reference number | 1690 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3241993 |
| Uniform title | MISSALE ROMANUM |
| Title page transcription | MISSALE ‖ ROMANVM, ‖ EX DECRETO SACROSANCTI ‖ Concilij Tridentini restitutum, ‖ PII. V. PONT. MAX. ‖ IVSSV EDITVM. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXV. ‖ Cum Priuilegiis Pont. Max. & Regis Catholici. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [226]: *⁶, **-****⁸, *****⁴, A-S⁸, A⁸, Bb-Gg⁸, a-l⁸, AA-FF⁸, GG⁴; pages 1⁰) [1-68]; 2⁰) 1-286, [287-288]; 3⁰) I-CXII; 4⁰) 1-175, [176]; 5⁰) 1-103, [104] (Errors: 1st part: this part is as usual not numbered, but, however, by mistake, some pages received a number: 21 [for 17], 24-25 [for 20-21], 28 [for 24], 33 [for 29], 36 [for 32], 38-39 [for 34-35], 42-43 [for 38-39], 45 [for 41], 48-53 [for 44-49]). Printed in black and red, on two columns (except for the calendar) |
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| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-4]: Bull of Pius V on the reformation of the missal (Rome, 14 July 1570, signed by C. Glorierius and H. Cumyn; italic type, parts in roman type) [5]: Privilege (Rome, 28 July 1570, s. C. Glorierius; Antwerp, Privy Counciland Council of Brabant, 7 October 1570, s. De Lange) [6-33]: Rubricae generates…Ritus servandus (parts in italic type) [34-39]: De defectibus… [45-50]: Praeparatio…(parts in italic type); Calendar (parts in italic type) [68]: illustration [1] -286: Proprium missarum de tempore (parts in music, marginals in roman type) [287]: Blank [288]: illustration [I] -CXII: Proprium missarum de tempore (marginals in italic type) [1] -175: Proprium missarum de sanctis (marginals in italic type) [176]: Blank [1] -103: Commune sanctorum (marginals in italic type) [104]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Scenes from the New Testament and saints: I. Copper engraving, 248 × 178, in 2nd part, page [272], representing Christ on the Cross (inscriptions: M. Hemskerck inventor, Phls. Galle Fecit, 1572); II. Woodcuts, many with the monograms of the designers Pieter van der Borcht (PB) and Melchior Lorch (ML), and the woodcutters Antoon van Leest (AVL), Cornelis Muller (C) and Gerard Janssen van Kampen (G): 1) V. on title-page, 100 × 100, representing St. Peter and St. Paul (PB, AVL) 2) 5 illustrations, c. 192 to 200 × c. 125 to 135, in 1st part, page [68] (PB, AVL) (printed within typographical fleurons); in 3rd part, pages [XL] (PB, AVL) (idem), [LVIII] (PB, AVL) (idem); in 4th part, pages [122] (PB, AVL) (idem), 162 (PB, AVL) (idem) 3) 6 illustrations, c. 123 × c. 158, in 3rd part, page XXVII (PB, G); in 4th part, pages 33 (PB), 78 (ML), 84 (PB, AVL), 89, 134 (PB) 4) 1 illustration, 120 × 155, in 4th part, page 45 (ML, G) 5) 3 illustrations, 111 × 75, in 2nd part, pages 24 (PB, AVL), 44 (PB, AVL), [288] (PB, AVL; printed within woodcut-borders) 6) 2 illustrations, 97 × 155, in 4th part, page 52 (PB), and one block (PB, AVL) twice printed, in 4th part, pages 56 and 138 7) 10 illustrations, 54 × 54, in 2nd part, pages 21, 22, 26, 28 (C), 30, 41 (C), 160, 182, 187, 201 8) Borders: A) Smaller border, 150 × 114, printed within larger border, in 2nd part, page [288]; B) 4 larger borders, c. 255 × c. 177, some reprinted: a) (AVL) in 2nd part, pages [1] and [273], and in 3rd part, page [LIX], b) (PB, AVL) in 2nd part, page [288], and in 3rd part, pages [I] and [XLI], c) in 4th part, page [123], d) (PB) in 4th part, page [163] |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- 4-207 |
| Bibliographical references | Weale-Bohatta, no. 1197 Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | On 27 February 1575 Plantin tells de Virbiesca that he finished a missal in 4⁰ and mailed a copy (Corr., IV, no. 609). |
| Note 2 | The edition was shipped to Spain on 28 April 1575: 1,212 copies of a 'missale Mediocri' of which 974 'commun' (= with woodcut-illustrations) and 238 with copper engravings (Arch. 22, folios 60r-63r; values not noted). |
| Note 3 | Plantin printed in 1575 another, larger missal in 4⁰ (see following no.). |
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