Processionarium ordinis fratrum predicatorum.

8vo (183 x 119mm.), 143 leaves (of 144, f6 supplied in facsimile), 29 lines plus headline, Gothic letter, printed in red and black throughout, title-page with woodcut device of Lucantonio Giunta, full-page woodcut on [*]2r depicting the Dominican Order, full-page woodcut on [*]4v depicting a procession of monks, full-page woodcut on l6v of the Crucifixion, smaller woodcut illustrations and initials, printed music, final leaf with woodcut device of Emericus printed in red (otherwise blank), contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, single clasp, vellum endleaves, 5pp. of manuscript music on vellum at end (dated 1541), fragments of a Latin manuscript on vellum (German, early fifteenth-century) in binding, lacking f6, f5 with marginal tear skilfully repaired, binding repaired and rebacked (retaining original spine)

H 13381; BMC v 539; Goff P998; Meyer-Baer 235; Sander 5903

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Most of Johannes Emericus de Spira's printed output comprised works for the use of various monastic orders and other liturgical and devotional texts. He mostly worked on commission for Lucantonio Giunta.