1520 CATHECUMINORUM LIBER (LITURGICAL RITUAL) + MANUSCRIPT, CONTEMPORARY BINDING

Description: Cathecuminorum liber iuxta ritum Curie Romane moremque patriarchalem Venetiarum: cum multis alijs perpulchris orationibus super vita decedentibus dicendis: nouiter inuentis: & additis: nonnulaque officia (secundum curiam) ad vsum vtilitatemque Venetiarum sacerdotum: in alijs non impressa: posita:vt in tabula patet. [Venice] : nouiter impressus in edibus Gregorij de Gregorijs, 1520 (Impressum Venetijs : per Gregorium de Gregorijs, 1520 die xviii Maij) In 4° (22 x 16 cm). Contemporary black leather binding on wooden boards with original clasps (the attachment of one of the clasps is missing a part, so it cannot be closed). Binding with signs of aging, defects and wormholes. Body of the book almost detached from the binding but still firm. Complete: [2], LXXXVI leaves. In the end were bound 17 leaves of which 15 handwritten and 2 blank. The first 8 leaves of the manuscript appear to be contemporary with the printing of the book, while the remaining part appears to be later. Some handwritten parts are a little faded. Printed in red and black in Gothic characters, decorated with graceful initials and music annotated on 4 lines. The title is adorned with a woodcut depicting Saint Sylvester, followed by a large woodcut of the Annunciation monogrammed I.A. with a wide border, another (repeated) smaller one depicting the baptism of Christ, all surrounded by large pictorial borders. Other engraved vignettes and initials are inserted in the text. Provenance: Ex libris cancelled on the title page. The first white page has a stamp with the motto “Fide et studio P.R.”. The penultimate white page has a stamp "Paul Rigot - Nimes". Internally in good condition: title page with a lack in the upper white margin, small holes and a small tear in the internal margin, title with some faded letters. Humidity stains (the pages with stains are visible in the photos), some scattered stains and redness and a small tear in the white margin of a few pages. Signs of woodworm on the endpapers. References: Essling 840; Sander 1832 LITURGICAL RITUAL OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF TRENT IN USE IN THE PATRIARCHATE OF VENICE. VERY RARE BOOK IN ORIGINAL BINDING. The Roman Ritual (Latin: Rituale Romanum), also known as Ritual is one of the official liturgical books of the Roman Rite of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church. It contains all of the services that a priest or deacon may perform; and are not contained in the Missale Romanum, Pontificale Romanum, or Caeremoniale Episcoporum, but for convenience does include some rituals that one of these books contains. Since 1969, the Roman Ritual is divided into different volumes by subject, for standard use in the Latin Church, yet priests and communities that celebrate pre-Second Vatican Council rituals still use the edition of 1952. When ritual manual books first were written, the Sacramentary in the West and the Euchologion in the East, they contained all of the bishops' and priests' parts for all rituals, including not only for Mass and Divine Liturgy, respectively, but for all of the other Sacraments, blessings, other rituals, and all sacramentals. The contents of the Roman Ritual and Pontificale Romanum were in the Sacramentaries. In the Eastern Churches this state of things still largely continues. In the West a further development led to the distinction of books, not according to the persons who use them, but according to the rituals for which they are used. The Missal, containing the whole Mass, succeeded by the Sacramentary. Some early missals included other rituals for the convenience of celebrants, but on the whole this later arrangement involved the need of other books to supply the non-Eucharistic rituals of the Sacramentary. These books, when they appeared, were the predecessors of the Pontificale Romanum and Roman Ritual. The bishop's functions, including Ordination and Confirmation, filled the Pontificale Romanum. The priest's functions, including Baptism, Penance, Matrimony, and Extreme Unction, were contained in a variety of little handbooks that eventually the Roman Ritual replaced. The Pontificale Romanum emerged first. The book under this name, also known as the Pontifical of Egbert, occurs already in the eighth century. From the ninth there was a multitude of pontificals. For priests' functions there was no uniform book until 1614. Some of these functions were contained in the pontificals; often the principal ones were added to missals and books of hours. Then special books were arranged, but there was no uniformity in arrangement or name. Through the Middle Ages a great number of handbooks for priests having the care of souls were written. Every local rite and almost every diocese had them; indeed many were compilations for the convenience of one specific priest or church. Such books had many titles: Manuale, Liber Agendarum, Agenda, Sacramentale, or Rituale. Specimens of such medieval predecessors of the Ritual are the Manuale Curatorum of Roeskilde in Denmark (first printed in 1513; edited by J. Freisen, Paderborn, 1898), and the Liber Agendarum of Schleswig (printed in 1416; Paderborn, 1898). The book of Roeskilde contains the rituals for benediction of salt and water, Baptism, Matrimony, benediction of a house, visitation of the sick with Viaticum and Extreme Unction, prayers for the dead, funerals, prayers for pilgrims, benediction of fire on Holy Saturday, and other benedictions. The book of Schleswig has much of the Holy Week rituals, and those for All Souls, Candlemas, and Ash Wednesday. In both many rituals differ from the Roman forms.

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