Sacerdotale romanum
Subtitle: ad consuetudinem S. Romanae ecclesiae aliarumq[ue] ; ecclesiarum ex apostolicae bibliothecae, ac sanctorum patrum iurium sanctionibus, & ecclesiasticorum doctorum scriptis, ad optatum quorumcunq : sacerdotum commodum, collectum : atque summorum pontificum authoritate multoties approbatum : summa nuper cura iuxta S. Tridentini concilii sanctiones emendatum & auctum...
Contributors: Castello, Alberto da, d. 1522.
Publisher: Apud Dominicum Nicolinum
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- texts -- Early works to 1800.; Rituals (Liturgical books) -- Texts
Work titles: Rituale Romanum (1585)
Notes: Compiled by Alberto da Castello.

37 lines, with headline and footer, in 1 column, Gothic type in red and black, musical notations in black on red staves.

Small woodcut on t.p.; 16 woodcuts (42x52mm) illustrating liturgical actions; 2 woodcuts illustrating mnemonic devices for intoning chant, as in no. 24 above; woodcut initials throughout.

Adam L1270; not in BM STC Italian.

Modern full brown calf, by Betsy Palmer Eldridge, 1989, copying a 1567 blind stamped calf example, to replace limp vellum, stiff and badly cockled and broken in the hinge area; new sewing.

Purchased 9 Jan. 1982 from D.&E. Lake.