Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
RAULIN, JOHANNES FACUNDUS, editor. Historia ecclesiae Malabaricae cum Diamperitana Synodo apud Indos Nestorianos, S. Thomae Christianos nuncupatos . . . cum liturgia Malabarica, tum dissertationes variae. [36], 529, [3] pages, including final blank. 4to, 245x183 mm, contemporary vellum boards, ink shelf number on spine, short crack at top of front joint; scattered light foxing, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Rome: Girolamo Mainardi, 1745

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first edition of the acts of the 1599 Synod of Diamper (now Udayamperoor) convened by Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, to bring the Saint Thomas Christians of India into the Catholic Church. Also included are their reformed liturgy and related papers.