Missal - Missae episcopales pro sacris ordinibus conferenis secundum ritum sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie (...). Venice, Giunta (colophon: "in officina haeredum Lucaeantonii Iunctae"), 1563, folio, 152-12 leaves, text in two columns, printed in red and black ink. Printer's mark in red on title page (Camerini, I, 143, third variant). 100 woodcut illustrations in the text (some repeated), including a full-page crucifixion, repeated seven times, and a border of 10 historiated woodcut panels on the opposite page, also repeated seven times. Roman and italic characters. Music with black notes on red staves. Bound in dark brown calf, cold-stamped (several small flaws to binding, fresh interior. In the 1560s, the brothers Tommaso and Giovan Maria Giunta were trying to recover financially from the fire that had destroyed their workshop in Venice in 1557. Taking few risks, they relied throughout the decade on psalters, graduals, missals, breviaries and antiphonaries. In designing these religious texts, the friars were inspired by the model of the missal that their father, Lucantonio Giunta, had published in 1501. Like the earlier missal, the Mass for the ordination of bishops offered here has the appearance of a medieval manuscript, with its double-columned text printed in a rounded variant of Gothic type, red type in place of rubrication, historiated and foliated initials, floral motifs and impressive woodcut illustrations. This medieval disguise, however, cannot hide certain Renaissance or Humanist elements that creep into the work, such as the graceful Roman type in the chapter headings and the sophisticated Venetian Renaissance woodcut illustrations of the Annunciation, Crucifixion, and Entombment. A beautiful and impressive well-preserved volume.