Catholic Church. Obsequiale sive Benedictionale, quod Agendam appellant secundum ritum, rare
Catholic Church. Obsequiale sive Benedictionale, quod Agendam appellant secundum ritum, collation: ):(4 A-Z Aa-Rr4, printed in red and black, title with woodcut profile of the head of Jesus within woodcut decorative border, ):(2 recto near full-page woodcut depicting the saints of Bohemia and verso woodcut arms of Archbishop Martin Medek z Mohelnice of Prague within decorative border, woodcut musical notation and decorative initials, later ink manuscript music to verso of title and ink and pencil marginalia in Latin or German, lacking blank ):(4, marginal repairs, more extensive to first few ff. (including title), spotting and staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, ornately blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps, corners restored, some staining, rubbed and marked, 4to (260 x 184mm.), Prague, Michael Peterle, 1585.*** Rare. Unknown to the standard bibliographies, and with only two copies recorded by WorldCat (Munich & Michigan).
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Catholic Church. Obsequiale sive Benedictionale, quod Agendam appellant secundum ritum, collation: ):(4 A-Z Aa-Rr4, printed in red and black, title with woodcut profile of the head of Jesus within woodcut decorative border, ):(2 recto near full-page woodcut depicting the saints of Bohemia and verso woodcut arms of Archbishop Martin Medek z Mohelnice of Prague within decorative border, woodcut musical notation and decorative initials, later ink manuscript music to verso of title and ink and pencil marginalia in Latin or German, lacking blank ):(4, marginal repairs, more extensive to first few ff. (including title), spotting and staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, ornately blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps, corners restored, some staining, rubbed and marked, 4to (260 x 184mm.), Prague, Michael Peterle, 1585.*** Rare. Unknown to the standard bibliographies, and with only two copies recorded by WorldCat (Munich & Michigan).
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