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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.
