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CATHOLIC CHURCH, Ceremonials. Rituum ecclesiasticorum siue Sacrarum ceremoniarum S.S. Romanae ecclesiae. Venice: Gregorius de Gregoriis, 21 November 1516. 2° (296 x 205mm). 3 large woodcut illustrations. (Lacks final ?blank, title a little soiled, unsightly worming in lower inner margins from D5 to G3.) 17th-century red morocco, gilt ornament in panels of spine, gilt and blind-stamped borders round sides, gilt corner-pieces of a fleur-de-lys and a smaller ornament and, at the centre, the arms of a cardinal or bishop (spine torn at foot, some scuffing and soiling, edges rubbed, lacking ties). Provenance: a few marginalia in a contemporary hand -- D. Vincenzo Bianchini (19th-century book label) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).
FIRST EDITION (another appeared a year or two later with differences in the preliminaries) of this instructive work which describes every important ceremony to be observed in the Catholic Church, from the election of a pope or emperor to the canonisation of a saint, the various itineraries of a pope, everything which pertains to councils, bulls, vestments, genuflexion, when to read the Gospel in Greek, and all the major feast days in the year. The woodcuts illustrate the pope 'in cathedra', the pope, assisted by thirteen prelates and monks, preaching at a pulpit, and the pope celebrating mass. Adams C-977; Sander 5662.
FIRST EDITION (another appeared a year or two later with differences in the preliminaries) of this instructive work which describes every important ceremony to be observed in the Catholic Church, from the election of a pope or emperor to the canonisation of a saint, the various itineraries of a pope, everything which pertains to councils, bulls, vestments, genuflexion, when to read the Gospel in Greek, and all the major feast days in the year. The woodcuts illustrate the pope 'in cathedra', the pope, assisted by thirteen prelates and monks, preaching at a pulpit, and the pope celebrating mass. Adams C-977; Sander 5662.