Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias ceremonias, quibus nunc utitur sacrosancta Romana ecclesia, accommodatum. Nonnullis insuper, que in antea impressis non habentur accuratissime auctum .Ac in tres partes distinctum. : quarum prima personarum, secunda rerum consecrationes, et benedictiones continet : tertia vero quedam ecclesiastica officia, et alia multa comprehendit, que in sequenti tabula, versa pagina monstrantur. Nuper summa diligentia reuisum, emendatum, & impressum.
Publisher: Apud Iuntas
Published: 1561
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Pontificals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800
Work titles: Pontifical.
Notes: At head of title: Pio IIII, Pont. Max.

40 lines in 2 columns, Gothic type red and black; musical notation black on red priinted staves.

Title page has small woodcut of pope and six bishops; Giuntine printer's device in red on title and at end; one full-page woodcut of Crucifixion, facing fol. 1; 3 1/3-page woodcuts (90x168mm) at head of each of 3 parts (fols. 1, 101, 171); 162 woodcuts (55x80mm) illustrating bishops aand retinue in liturgical actions; woodcut initials of varying sizes.

Mortimer Harvard Italian 383 describes thiis fourth Giunta edition. This copy has D4-5 uncancelled.

Contemporary sheep over wooden boards (modern backing by Donald Taylor) tooled in gilt and blind.

Cancelled bookplate, removed by Donald Taylor, of the Virtue and Cahill Library.

Purchased from Christie's Lot 66, 6 Dec. 1990.