Gi.2.15
[Pontifical]
Gregorio XIII. pont. max. Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias caeremonias quibus nunc utitur sacrosancta R.E. accommodatum. Nonnullis insuper quae in antea impressis non habentur accuratissime auctum. Ac in tres partes distinctos. Quarum prima personarum: secunda rerum consecrationes, & benedictiones continet: tertia vero quaedam ecclesiastica officia, & alia multa comprehendit, quae in sequenti tabula versa pagina monstrantur.
Pontificale romanvm ad omnes pontificias cæremonias
Nuper summa diligentia reuisum, emendatum, & impressum.
Venetiis : Apud Iuntas,, 1582.
[4], 259, [1] leaves : ill., music ; 37 cm. (Fol.)
Signatures: [cross]⁴ A-2I⁸ 2K⁴.
Printed in 2 columns in red & black; printed marginalia.
Music printed from type; Gregorian notation.
Initials; title vignette; printer's device on title page and last page.
Errors in foliation.
Leaf 2K4 blank.
BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 387
CNCE, 11863
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Armorial bookplate of Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp (1830-1891) on front pasteboard. Ms. note on paper note glued next to it, reading: "The Lord Bishop of Oxford from Beauchamp. ... September 1868".
Ms. signature on front pastedown: "Lord [?] 1830".
Coloured armorial bookplate of Christopher, Baron of Wolckhenstain, dated 1595, on front pastedown.
16th-century calfskin over wood boards. Covers decorated with blind fillets and roll to form a border; blind fillet and gilt roll to form a rectangular panel with gilt tools at the corners; on the front cover: a gilt centrepiece portraying the Virgin and Christ; gilt initials inside the panel: "C. F. Z. W. V. R." (above the centrepiece) and "M.D.XCV" (below); gilt titling on front cover, above panel: "pontificale : romanvm"; on rear cover: gilt centrepiece of coats of arms; blind fillets on bevels. Intact metal and leather clasps. Spine with six sewing supports, decorated with blind fillets and gilt tools. Textblock trimmed and dyed blue. Endpapers of undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Loose letter from Frederick Lyon to "Sargent" at All Souls, Oxford, dated 3 November 1889.
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.1.10.
Ms. note on front flyleaf recto: "Refurbished by McLeish 1955".
Some hand-painted initials and vignettes.
Gregorian chants.
Gregory, 1502 - 1585 XIII, Pope,
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Lygon, Frederick, 1830 - 1891 Earl Beauchamp, former owner.
Heredi di Lucantonio Giunta printer.
Italy Venice.
lat
B51148