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Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias ceremonias, quibus nunc utitur sacrosancta Romana Ecclesia, accommodatum....
Description
Title page with woodcut and red printer’s device (1572). Beings with an index. Full page woodcut of the crucifixion. Text printed in two column black letter in both red and black throughout. Numerous woodcut illustrations and floriated initials. Music for chants arranged on red four-line staves with square notation in black.
Collation
*^4, A-Z^8, Aa-Ff^8, Gg-Hh^6. Complete.
Binding
Early twentieth century vellum over boards. Spine with four raised bands and “Pontificale Romanum” and “Venetiis 1572” in black to compartments. Two bookplates to front pastedown. Endpapers renewed.
Condition
Free endpapers toned; infrequent damp staining, most notably to Dd-Ff, otherwise mostly marginal; occasional toning and a few marks; a couple of ink annotations; a very nice copy.
Note
The official liturgical book of the Roman Catholic Church, which contains the rites and ceremonies performed by bishops rather than ordinary priests. It provides the prescribed forms for episcopal ceremonies including ordinations, consecrations, confirmations, the dedication of churches and altars, the blessing of sacred objects, and other solemn rites reserved to the episcopacy.
As such, the volume offers a direct window into the ceremonial and sacramental life of the sixteenth-century Roman Church at the height of the Counter-Reformation. Its instructions govern not only the words to be spoken, but also vestments, gestures, processions, blessings, anointings, and the use of liturgical objects within which Catholic bishops exercised their office.