May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 284

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Roman Breviary, Text Manuscript on Paper.

Rome: Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore [Liberian Basilica], late-17th century.

Folio format Latin manuscript on laid paper, 188 numbered pages, written in a neat Roman hand in two columns, brown and red ink throughout, listing prayers for the feast days beginning with November 28th and ending with November 26th, with a calendar and additional prayers; created expressly for clergy at the Liberian Basilica in Rome; bound in contemporary half leather with patterned paper boards, 16 x 10 3/4 in.

Saint Mary Maggiore is a Major Papal Basilica, the largest Catholic Marian Church in Rome, and one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome.