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Patrizi Piccolomini , Agostino
Rituum ecclesiasticorum siue sacrarum cereimoniarum S.S. Romanae Ecclesiae. Tres non ante books imprinted, 1516
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€ 750 - 850
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In the colophon Venezia De, Gregoris, 1516. In 2 °. Frontispiece with epigraphic title and decreasing line effect, woodcut depicting the Pontiff in the chair surrounded by monks and disciples, another woodcut at the opening of the second book with the Pope surrounded by prelates in the act of celebrating Mass, the third - at the opening of the III and last book - always depicting the Pontiff in the Sistine Chapel on the Gestatory Chair, while receiving the homage of illustrious characters, spaces for drop caps with guide letters, cursive font, coeval binding in brown calfskin, to the triple dry frame plates, in the second border phytomorphic, in the center a floral rose window surrounded by six rosettes, back with three nerves, on the lower plate the title of the work inscribed on a glued circular scroll (delicate restorations to the caps and corners). Handwritten ownership note on the title page and dated 1555.