Pontificale Romanum

folio (310 x 225mm.), printed in red and black throughout, title, a1r and o3v within woodcut border, woodcut illustrations including full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on +8v, woodcut initials, typeset music, ruled in red throughout, contemporary calf with central gilt stamp of the Crucifixion (now mostly erased), later red morocco lettering-piece "Betisiale Romanum", lacking z2, without final blank leaf, some headlines cropped or cut close, occasional light staining, rebacked, joints cracking, extremities rubbed

Petrus Landu--, canon of Chartres, and Jacobus Miard, early inscriptions on title-page; Law Society, armorial bookplate and blue slip of paper pasted to front of binding stating this ownership

Censimento 16 CNCE 11859 & 61272 (where it appears under two different titles); cf. Sander 5839 (1520 Giunta edition)

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The Pontifical contains the rites to be performed by bishops, including holy Orders and the consecration of the Chrism. A standard version was issued by Clement VIII towards the end of the sixteenth century.