Dec 06, 2001 - Sale 1917

Sale 1917 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SACERDOTALE ROMANUM ad consuetudinem S. Romanae ecclesiae aliarumque ecclesiarum . . . summa nuper cura juxta S. Tridentini Concilii sanctiones emendatum, & auctum.<> Numerous small woodcut illustrations; extensive letterpress music passages in text. [4], 375, [1] leaves. Printed in red and black. 4to, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, rebacked, top of spine chipped, lacks catches and clasps, endpapers renewed; preliminaries dampstained in upper and outer margins, early inscriptions on title, paper slip pasted over stamp on verso, otherwise generally quite clean internally. Venice: Jo. Baptista Sessa, & Fratres, 1585

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Handsomely printed post-Tridentine service book comprising the various offices performed by a priest, as well as miscellaneous liturgical texts and sections on music theory and performance (with a woodcut of the "Guidonian Hand" demonstrating the hexachord on 2S1v), and exorcism.<