Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Psalterium Romanum dispositum per hebdomadam. Full-page woodcut of King David on 2+4v. [12], 176 leaves. bound with: Sacra baptizandi institutio iuxta ritum Sancte Romane Ecclesie . . . Accessere alia multa cum Exorcismis contra Daemoniacos, & Visitatione Infirmorum. Full-page woodcuts of the Deposition on K4v and King David on N2v. 176 leaves. Text and music printed in red and black. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 157x103 mm, contemporary brown morocco decorated with gilt arabesque border around center cartouche of arabesque tools enclosing Crucifixion stamp on front cover and owner's name (SOR / BRIGI / DA / MONDI / NI) on rear cover, brass catches, one clasp (of 2), top of spine reinforced, joints and cover edges rubbed; marginal dampstaining and worming not affecting text at beginning of first work and end of second, traces of mold in lower margin of preliminaries in first work; gilt edges, gauffered to ropework pattern. Later female owner's calligraphic bookplate mounted on front pastedown. Venice: apud Giuntas, 1576; 1581

Additional Details

Sammelband in contemporary binding executed for a nun, containing the Psalter and a ritual book for baptism, extreme unction, exorcism, etc. This edition of the Psalter not in EDIT16, SBN, OCLC, or USTC.