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LITURGY, Passionarium, use of Palencia. Passiones, Benedictiones, Lammentationes, et reliqua. Palencia: Diego de Cordoba, 1536.
Royal 2o (376 x 259 mm). Gothic letter. Title printed in red and black within a woodcut border incorporating the arms of Francisco de Mendoza, Bishop of Palencia, the same border repeated at intervals in the text; elaborate architectural woodcut border on colophon; running headline in red throughout within woodcut scrolls; musical notation on 6 five-line red staves; 7 large Hispano-Mauresque woodcut initials and smaller initials printed in red and black. The first leaf of each of the Gospel sequences within ILLUMINATED AND LETTERED BORDERS (consecutively red, blue, green and black), each sequence introduced with a large initial P showing Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane with three sleeping apostles. (Marginal repairs throughout, some crossing borders and text.) Contemporary Spanish binding of blind-tooled sheep, the front cover with a 17th-century baroque painted Crucifix, the back cover with painted monogram "IHS," gilt-painted cornerpieces (a few repairs). Provenance: Cristobal de Capillas (manuscript gilt inscription on black painted panel at end: "Este Libro es de Cristobal de Capillas, Mando que sede a S. Catherina de Sena", on verso gilt-painted panel with monogram "IHS"); two-leaf manuscript bound in at end "Signification del Numero y Mysterio de las çinco Missas," 17th-century, inlaid within painted border; acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1984.
ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOOKS PRINTED AT PALENCIA. Not found by any of the standard authorities and apparently only known by the imperfect copy at the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (lacking title-page). Little is known of the printer Diego de Cordoba, whose output seems to have been limited to no more than three liturgical books, probably commissioned by Bishop Mendoza. The final woodcut border, surrounding the colophon, is by Juan de Vingles, reproduced in Henry Thomas "Juan de Vingles, a Sixteenth Century Book Illustrator," in The Library, bol. XVIII (1937-8), pp. 121-177. Thomas knew of no earlier use than 1538. Palau 214430.
Royal 2o (376 x 259 mm). Gothic letter. Title printed in red and black within a woodcut border incorporating the arms of Francisco de Mendoza, Bishop of Palencia, the same border repeated at intervals in the text; elaborate architectural woodcut border on colophon; running headline in red throughout within woodcut scrolls; musical notation on 6 five-line red staves; 7 large Hispano-Mauresque woodcut initials and smaller initials printed in red and black. The first leaf of each of the Gospel sequences within ILLUMINATED AND LETTERED BORDERS (consecutively red, blue, green and black), each sequence introduced with a large initial P showing Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane with three sleeping apostles. (Marginal repairs throughout, some crossing borders and text.) Contemporary Spanish binding of blind-tooled sheep, the front cover with a 17th-century baroque painted Crucifix, the back cover with painted monogram "IHS," gilt-painted cornerpieces (a few repairs). Provenance: Cristobal de Capillas (manuscript gilt inscription on black painted panel at end: "Este Libro es de Cristobal de Capillas, Mando que sede a S. Catherina de Sena", on verso gilt-painted panel with monogram "IHS"); two-leaf manuscript bound in at end "Signification del Numero y Mysterio de las çinco Missas," 17th-century, inlaid within painted border; acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1984.
ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOOKS PRINTED AT PALENCIA. Not found by any of the standard authorities and apparently only known by the imperfect copy at the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (lacking title-page). Little is known of the printer Diego de Cordoba, whose output seems to have been limited to no more than three liturgical books, probably commissioned by Bishop Mendoza. The final woodcut border, surrounding the colophon, is by Juan de Vingles, reproduced in Henry Thomas "Juan de Vingles, a Sixteenth Century Book Illustrator," in The Library, bol. XVIII (1937-8), pp. 121-177. Thomas knew of no earlier use than 1538. Palau 214430.