Pontificale Romanum, Venice, Giunta, 1572, contemporary calf gilt

Pontifical

Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias ceremonias, quibus nunc utitur sacrosancta Romana Ecclesia, accommodatum... Venice: Giunta, 1572

folio (368 x 242mm.), printed in red and black throughout, title with woodcut illustration and printer's device (repeated above colophon), full-page woodcut on +4, woodcut initials and illustrations, typeset music, a few manuscript annotations, without final blank, contemporary Venetian calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, title-page slightly stained and damaged and repaired, small wormhole at foot of gutter, binding slightly rubbed, lacking four pairs of ties, new endpapers

LITERATURE:

Edit16 11862

PROVENANCE:

Convent of St Nicholas of the Discalced Augustinians, of Mondovì in Piemonte, inscription on title-page dated 1697