Cantus monastici formula noviter impressa
Subtitle: ac in melius redacta : cui aliqua que deerant : consilio multoru[m] adiu[n]cta
Contributors: Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor; Giunta, Luca-Antonio, 1457-1538, printer; Boston Public Library
Publisher: Luceantonii de Giuta
Published: 1523
Place of publication: Venice]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Gregorian chants
Other titles: Monastaci formula
Notes: Plainsong notation.

Printed in red and black ink.

Title page printed in red ink. Includes printers' device.

Signatures: A-Ḿı.

Edition statement transposed from colophon.

Gift: Joshua Bates

In Latin.

Catalogued 20151123 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy quarter-bound in red/gray/black marbled papers and brown leather over boards. Spine includes binder's title in gilt. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying copy as the gift of Joshua Bates. Printed on antique laid papers with (extremely faint) vertical chainlines and horizontal wire lines. Title page includes annotations and markings in pencil hand and black ink script, along with embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Recto of leaf A1 includes annotations in pencil script regarding date of receipt of copy. Leaf A2 includes autograph in black ink script.Rear pastedown includes ink stamp of the Boston Public Library Bindery dated "MAR 17 1908". Front cover detached from binding. Head-, fore-, and tail-edges of pages marbled.