Rerum Liturgicarum Libri Duo Auctore Joanne Bona S. R. E. Tit. S. Bernardi Ad Thermas Presbytero Cardinali Ordinis Cisterciensis Pedemontano Patrioto Montis Reglas, Hac Novissima Editione Denuo Recogniti, Aucti, Notis, Observationibus, Ac Perpetuo Fere Commentario Historico, Critico, Dogmatico, Illustrati, Novisque Accessionibus Locupletati, Ac In Quatuor tomos Distributi. Adjiciuntur Hucusque Inediti Duo Singulares Ritus Ecclesiarum Vercellensis, & Auguste Praetoriae In Italia Subalpina; Nonnulle Item Dissertationes Adversus Misoliturgos, Alosque Pseudocriticos, Quibus Quaecumque Ad Missae Sacrisicium, Rei Litugicae Originem, Status, Antiquitatem, Successionem, Ordinem, Ritus, Caeremonias, Ministerium, Disciplinam, Seu Notitiam Spectant, Proferuntur, Disquiruntur, Enucleantur, Studio, Et Labore D. Roberti Sala Taurinensis. Tomus Primus. Accedunt Appendices, et Indices In Fine. Augustae Taurinorum. Ex Typographia Regia. MDCCXLVII.
Joannis Bona S. R. E. Tit. S. Bernardi Ad Thermas Presbyteri Cardinalis Ordinis Cisterciensis Pedemontano Patrioto Montis Reglis Epistolae Selectae Aliaque Eruditorum Sui Temporis Virorum Ad Eumdem Scriptae, Una Cum Nonnullis Ipsius Analectis Collegit, Digessit, Ordinavit, Brevibusque Notis Illustravit D. Robertus Sala Taurinesis Ejusdem Ord., & Congr. S. Bernardi Abbas Tit. Sac. Facultatum, & In Vaticana Bibliotheca Latinae Linguae Professor. Tomus Unicus. Suis Item Indicibus Locupletatus. Augustae Taurinorum MDCCLV. Ex Typographia Regia.
Two Books on Liturgical Matters by Joannis Bona, Priest of Saint Bernard at the Baths, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Cistercian Order, Pedemontano, Patrioto of Montis Reglas, in this Latest Edition Again Recognised, Augmented, with Notes, Observations, and Almost Continuous Historical, Critical, Dogmatic Commentary, Illustrated with New Additions, and Divided into Four Volumes. Added are Two Previously Unpublished Unique Rituals of the Churches of Vercelli, and Augsburg in Subalpine Italy; Also Some Dissertations Against Misoliturges, and Other Pseudocritics, which Deal with Whatever Pertains to the Sacrifice of the Mass, the Origin, Status, Antiquity, Succession, Order, Rituals, Ceremonies, Ministry, Discipline, or Knowledge of Liturgical Matters, Investigated, Dissected, Elucidated, with the Zeal and Effort of D. Robert Sala of Turin. First Volume. Appendices and Indexes are Added at the End. In Turin. From the Royal Press. 1747.
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Selected Letters of Joannis Bona, Priest, Cardinal of the Cistercian Order, Pedemontano, Patriot of Montis Reglis, along with Other Letters Written by Learned Men of His Time to Him, Compiled, Arranged, and Annotated with Brief Notes by D. Robertus Sala of Turin, of the Same Order, and Titular Abbot of the Congregation of St. Bernard, Professor of Sacred Faculties, and of the Latin Language in the Vatican Library. A Single Volume Enriched with Its Own Indexes. In Turin, 1755. From the Royal Printing Press. [Being the fourth volume].
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In lovely large folio size full vellum bindings with gilt titles.
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Size: 273 x 413 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[(1), t.p., v-xcvi, pp.1-404, pp.405-514 (appendix), pp.515-522 (index), (2)]; [(1), half title, t.p., 4pp., i-xli, 3pp., pp.1-370, pp.371-388 (index), (1)]
Uniform full vellum with gilt titles with decorative borders. Bindings with some rubbing and marks. Few very small wormholes to the bottoms of spines and bottom of joints. Shelf and edge wear. Shelf lean. Marble page edges, lightly dulled. Front board of volume one warped. All boards securely attached with minor wear to joints and hinges. Endpapers with some discolouration and edge toning as commensurate with the binding. Torn out bookplate remnants attached to the reverso of the ffep in volume one, and the bookplate present but prominently rubbed out in volume four. Purple ink stamps to preliminaries in both volumes. Text blocks extremely clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Volumes one and four only. These large full vellum folios shows attractively on the shelf.
[OCLC 1203709006, 28594817].
