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CATHECUMENUS -- Liber cathecumini...ad usum utilitatemque sacerdotum secundum ritum Romane curie. Venice: Johannes Baptista Sessa, 31 July 1498.
Super-chancery 8° (156 x 101mm). Collation: +8 A-I8. 80 leaves, 30 lines, roman letter, printed in red and black, musical notation on four staves on 42 pages, two-line capitals in red throughout, 4- and 7-line woodcut initials, title in red with large printer's device (Kristeller 289), colophon with small printer's device. (Occasional slight thumbsoiling.) 18th-century limp paper boards. Provenance: Jacobus Cipollus, archdeacon of Male (near Trento?), 16th-century signature on title; early 16th-century accounts on front endpaper.
A RARE EDITION of this handbook of liturgical rites for priests. It follows Roman use, and occasionally Venetian. C 3572; IGI 5755. NOT IN HAIN, BMC, OR GOFF.
Super-chancery 8° (156 x 101mm). Collation: +8 A-I8. 80 leaves, 30 lines, roman letter, printed in red and black, musical notation on four staves on 42 pages, two-line capitals in red throughout, 4- and 7-line woodcut initials, title in red with large printer's device (Kristeller 289), colophon with small printer's device. (Occasional slight thumbsoiling.) 18th-century limp paper boards. Provenance: Jacobus Cipollus, archdeacon of Male (near Trento?), 16th-century signature on title; early 16th-century accounts on front endpaper.
A RARE EDITION of this handbook of liturgical rites for priests. It follows Roman use, and occasionally Venetian. C 3572; IGI 5755. NOT IN HAIN, BMC, OR GOFF.