Sacerdotale Brixinen.: continens modum administrandi sacramenta, exequias defunctorum, diuersas item benedictiones sacerdotales, per totum annum, ad ritum romanum, & vsum diaecesis brixinensis, accommodatas, aliaq´[ue] ad instructionem sacerdotum, & cur

(Innsbruck, Austria): Oeniponti : Excudebat Daniel Agricola,, 1609. [28], 633, [13] pages : music. Title page and text In red and black; head- and tail-pieces; initials; episcopal coat of arms of Christoph Andreas von Spaur (verso of title-leaf); errata on recto of final leaf./ Music is in neumatic notation. Text is primarily in Latin but includes texts in German, which are mostly German translations of Latin text, preceding it. Very Good Minus, in original intricately blind embossed leather, leather at spine missing, clasps missing, lacking the half-title and front blank end page, a few pages with tears, p. 156 with loss of paper at bottom margin and p.157 with loss affecting bottom 3 lines of text, last blank end page missing bottom 2" and with contemporary owners name and writing in Latin. Internally clean and bright. Beautifully presented in custom 20th c. clamshell case in red and gray cloth and gilt lettering with prior owner name in gilt, that of John H. Planer, noted music professor at Manchester University. SCARCE, OCLC appears to locate 5 copies worldwide. Contents: Title page -- Labia sacerdotis (Coat of arms of Bishop Cristoph Andreas von Spaur -- Praefatio (Christophorus Andreas Dei Gratia Episcopus Brixinensis -- Church Calendar -- Index Capitum -- Prolegomena -- De sacramentis ecclesiae in communi -- De sacramento baptismi -- De sacramento confirmationis -- De sacramento poenitentiae -- De sacramento Eucharistiae -- De sacramento Extremae vnctionis -- De sacramento ordinis -- De sacramento matrimonii -- De exequiis et sepultris -- De diuersis benedictionibus sacerdotalibus -- Miscellanea -- Index rerum praecipuarum. . Leather. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.