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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 4503033, member: 14916&quot;]A few weeks ago I bought this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missal" rel="nofollow">Roman Missal</a> as a 19th version, but I saw already it must be older. I have several missals printed in Antwerpen (Belgium) in my collection from the <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/missale-romanum-roman-missal-plantin-1574.54325/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/missale-romanum-roman-missal-plantin-1574.54325/">16th</a> to the 18th century, but this is the only one with silver fittings. It is special because of the elaborate book cover.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]394275[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As many missals of this area it is a combination of an older part with several additions with pieces of the mass that are specific to this part of the world.&nbsp; The heart of the book is a Missale Romanum, printed by the widow of Balthasar (III) Moretus of the famous Plantin-house in Antwerpen (1701).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]394273[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Addition for the city of Liege in Belgium (1768)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]394274[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The latest addition is a part that was printed in Rome in 1919, so I guess the book was bound around 1920.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]394276[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I inspected the fittings on the cover well, but I could not find any hallmarks. To me it looks like silver, but older than 1920. It seems to me the silver is from the 18th century, so the silver fittings must have been recycled from the original 18th century book. Am I right about that? What do you think?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]394277[/ATTACH]</p><p>Nice central ornaments of Jesus and Mary. It is hard to make a good picture of a shiny object!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]394278[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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