‎Ecclesia Catholica - BREVIARIUM MONASTICUM :‎
‎Breviarium monasticum ritum et morem monachorum Ordinis S. Benedicti de observantia Casinensis Congregationis alias S. Justinae de Padua. Ex Decreto Capituli Generalis.‎

‎" Venetiis ( Venezia ), Apud Iuntas, 1585, format in-8°, ( 15 x 10 cm), (32) nn pp + 464 lvs. (with 4 full page wooscut ills. in the text). ²Entirely printed in red & black. [Binding] Bound in contemporary full brown red leather. Silk headcaps, Both sides covered with a design of interlacing scrolls and leaves ; in the centre the sacred monogram (I.H.S.) of Jesus, with two working bronze clasps of which one side is mounted on a leather strip . All edges gilt and with elaborate ciselling. The monogram on the front cover slightly damaged, Upper outer joint partly split (without loss of leather or structural damage). A very finely preserved decorative binding of the late 16th or early 17th c. These kind of bindings with the ciselling have become very rare. The ciselling design shows a large intertwined letter V (one upside down) combined with two heart -like figures."‎

Reference : 56879

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