RARE collections MANUSCRIT RITUEL BILINGUE (LATIN & ITALIEN) - RELIURE CONTEMPORAINE (1761)

A RARE BILINGUAL (LATIN AND ITALIAN) RITUAL MANUSCRIPT IN A CONTEMPORARY BEAUTIFUL BINDING:

"LA S. MESSA E PREGHIERE. Tradotte da J.M.A. MDCCLXI".

IT CONTAINS

THE DIVINE LITURGY AND PRAYERS

(A.D. 1761)

16o size (153X86mm). ff. a-b, pp. 1-99 (ff. 52 or 104 pp. totally).

High quality and excellent preservation handmade medium thickness porous white paper. Written in brown color ink by the same scribe (J.M.A.) in a calligraphic and very clear medium size script. The scribe also numbered the pages at the upper corner of each page (1-99).

Binding contemporary to script in brown cow leather with embossed gold decorations and the initials of the scribe and owner on both covers.

The codex is a ritual/liturgical manualpar excellencefor the use of a roman-catholic priest. After an (inedited?) introductory devotional prayer to Virgin Mary (f. b), it comprises the Service of Divine Liturgy with practical performance advices (pp. 1-66) , and then a bandful of important prayers in several circumstances (pp. 67-99).

The important aspect in this manuscript is the translation/adaption of the text of the Divine Liturgy Service, as well as of other prayers in the Appendix from Latin to Italian language by the scribe J.M.A., as he declares in the title page (f.a r). Thats why the text in the majority of the ms is in two parallel columns, Latin (left column) and Italian (right column). Hence the codex consists of a prototype work, most probably unpublished.

Furthermore, the ms is dated (1761) with an artistical contemporary binding and is preserved in excellent condition!