[MAINZ.] Agenda ecclesiae Moguntinensis. Edited by Sebastian, Archbishop of Mainz. Mainz: Franz Behem for Theobald Spengel, 1551.
[MAINZ.] Agenda ecclesiae Moguntinensis. Edited by Sebastian, Archbishop of Mainz. Mainz: Franz Behem for Theobald Spengel, 1551.

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[MAINZ.] Agenda ecclesiae Moguntinensis. Edited by Sebastian, Archbishop of Mainz. Mainz: Franz Behem for Theobald Spengel, 1551.

2o (275 x 187 mm). Printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut of the Crucificion, large coat-of-arms, woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-stamped German pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps (later endpapers). Provenance: Michael Dormer (early monastic inscription on title); acquired from Bromer Booksellers, 1989.

FIRST EDITION of this church liturgy for the bishopric of Mainz produced under the auspices of Sebastian Heusenstamm (1508-1555), Archbishop of Mainz. See BM/STC German 515.

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