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1990SKU0615062Catholic Book Publishing 1990-01-01. leather_bound. New. 7x5x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Catholic Book Publishing hardcover
197384137Vatican City: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis 1973-1975. 18 x 11.5 cm 4 volumes in limp black leather binding with gilt lettering and harp device on covers; multiple damaged ribbon markers in various colours; 3 vols. gilt and 1 red page edges; Text in Latin. Set not entirely uniform; volumes show varying degrees of wear with rubbing and scuffing to spines and boards page edges toned previous owner's name vol. 2 missing first red endpaper still in good condition see pictures. Officium Divinum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum auctoritate Pauli PP. VI promulgatum. Editio Typica. Vol. 1 Tempus Adventus / Tempus Nativitatis 1300 pp. quinta impressio 1973; Vol. 2 Tempus Quadragesimae / Sacrum Triduum Paschale / Tempus Paschale 1794 pp. octava impressio 1974; Vol. 3 Tempus per Annum Hebdomadae IXVII 1644 pp. octava impressio 1975; Vol. 4 Tempus per Annum Hebdomadae XVIIIXXXIV 1626 pp. octava impressio 1975. Set is not entirely uniform; see pictures. Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis hardcover
16871057London: Printed for Matthew Turner 1687. Wenceslaus Hollar. 1687 6 327 1 1 - 167 p. Five engravings by Wenceslaus Hollar. As in both BL copies in this copy A3 follows the title with no apparent loss of text. Bound in later calf with raised bands and red lettering piece. Light wear to the corners and joints and a light patina of use to the corners of some pages. Interesting as a Catholic liturgy printed in London shortly before the abdication of James II. London: Printed for Matthew Turner, hardcover
1733AQ27937Londra i.e London: Si vende da Gio. Wilcox 1733. 648 24pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Extremities worn loss to head- and tail-caps upper board held by cords only. Slight loss to gutter of leaf B1 title browned intermittent light dampstaining. A London-printed Italian translation of the Anglican liturgy a revised and corrected edition edited by antiquary and sometime bookseller Alexander Gordon c. 1692-1754 of Church of Ireland clergyman William Bedell's bap. 1572 d. 1642 translation - the first of its kind - posthumously published in 1685. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at locations BL California Cambridge General Theological Seminary Oxford St. Andrews Strathclyde UoL Wellcome. ESTC T195182 Griffiths 66:3 p.513. 12mo. Si vende da Gio. Wilcox unknown
53102Paris: Boussod Valadon & Cie. in Asni�res-sur-Seine 1895 . Published by Boussod Valadon & Cie. in Asni�res-sur-Seine 1895 � A magnificent copy of this beautiful book of hours illustrated with 20 photogravures after watercolors by Guillaume Dubufe. Elegant full cream morocco binding spine with five raised bands gilt edges charming Art Nouveau gilt decoration on the front cover gilt rolls on the pastedowns gilt rolls at the head and tail silk moir� endpapers. Binding signed Durvand. Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Cie., in Asni�res-sur-Seine, 1895 . hardcover
1793214969Oxford : printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Jackson and W. Dawson printers to the University 1793. 1793 edition. Hardback. Very good copy in gilt-blocked full red aniline calf with gilt decorated border to front and rear boards. Inner gilt dentelles. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age with gilt-tooling to spine. Marble endpapers with all-edges-gilt. Remains quite well-preserved overall: Internally tight bright clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Physical description. : 312 p ; 15 cm ; Notes: Bound with A companion to the altar and Sternhold & Hopkins metrical Psalms. Subject: Church of England - Book of Common Prayer. Notes: Referenced by: ESTC : t182631. Oxford : printed at the Clarendon Press, by W. Jackson and W. Dawson, printers to the University hardcover
262664Egypt late 19th century. Lithographic text in Coptic and Arabic. Pp. 2 3-160. 1 vols. 12mo. Nineteenth century red leather. Rubbed recased. Collector's ink stamp dated 1898 on front free endpaper; manuscript note on leaf preceding title. Good. Lithographic text in Coptic and Arabic. Pp. 2 3-160. 1 vols. 12mo. OCLC: 560963678 for an edition of 1603 unknown
elala2064Quebec: John Neilson 1812 i.e. 1814. 12mo. pp. 7 p.l. 2-379 4. contemporary calf rebacked corners worn. Second Edition. The last two leaves contain the index and approbation dated 12 February 1814 in which the Bishop of Quebec advises that this second edition was necessary as the first was out of print. Neilsons Heures Romaines was originally published in 1795. Lande 2156. Vlach 260 incorrect pagination. Vlach IQ 470. Dionne I 104 & Gagnon I 1660 pp. 379. TPL 6937. Quebec: John Neilson, 1812 [i.e. 1814]. unknown
147512525Lombardy 1475. <p> This fragment includes part of the Office liturgy to be recited on the feast of the Dedication of a Church. The first three lines of the recto are the ending of the biblical reading or chapter for Sext Apocalypse 21: 3 followed by the chapter for None 1 Corinthians 3: 11. The long rubric instructs to read the same Common of Saints chapter at Prime Vespers Lauds and Terce of all the Saints' feasts that are not assigned specific biblical readings. The illuminated S on the verso marks the beginning of the Office of St. Stephen and its associated chapters: Acts 6: 8 for Lauds Terce and Vespers Acts 7: 55 for Sext and Acts 7: 60 for None. At the end of the page are the first two words of the rubric for St. John the Baptist.<br /> THE INITIAL'S DECORATION AND COLOR SCHEME UNMISTAKABLY NORTHERN ITALIAN APPEAR TO FOLLOW THE STYLE OF BELBELLO DA PAVIA fl. 1420-70 especially his choir books for San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice one of which is at the Met Cloisters object no. 60.165. In very good condition.<br /> ¶See Palladino's Treasures of a Lost Art. Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance 114-7.</p> unknown
1712AQ23533Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson 1712. 30 308 2 309-429pp 1. Title page in red and black. Leaf B1 is a cancellans with 'nople asure' in line eight of text corrected to 'no pleasure'. Some copies have both states of B1 the present copy does not. Handsomely bound in later richly gilt-tooled dark green morocco A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Elaborate brocade endpapers armorial bookplate of Thomas Maitland Dundrennan to FEP internally clean and crisp. An attractively bound eighteenth-century Edinburgh-printed edition of the controversial ‘Laud’s Prayer book’ an avowedly English-influenced version of the liturgy issued by Robert Young printer to Charles I in 1637. Drafted by the Bishops of Ross and Dunblane John Maxwell d. 1639 and James Wedderburn 1585-1639 the Scottish Book of Common prayer was largely based upon the rite first issued in 1549 during the reign of King Edward VI. Introduced to an unaccepting Scottish population on 23rd July 1637 by Archbishop Laud at the behest of King Charles I it attempted to replace John Knox's Calvinist Book of Common Order and proved the greatest symbol of the unpopular standardisation of Anglican Protestantism throughout the British Isles. The text was one of several triggers of the Covenant movement and the first stages of the War of Three Kingdoms.Despite its unpopularity this historic text influenced the 1662 revision of the English Liturgy the 1789 American Book of Common Prayer and the Scottish Episcopalian Liturgy of 1929. Thomas Maitland Lord Dundrennan 1792-1851 judge and sometime Solicitor General for Scotland. A devotee of antiquarian literature Dundrennan amassed an extensive library - 'a monument' according to Lord Cockburn 'honourable to his taste and judgment'. The contents on which was dispersed by sale over nine days in November 1851. ESTC T138343. 8vo. Printed by James Watson unknown
1772AQ15188Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill 1772. 416pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco 'William Crosbie Esq. Mayor. 1776' stamped in gilt to upper board A.E.G. Extremities rubbed and discoloured loss to gilt tooling joints worn. Marbled endpapers internally clean and crisp but for tear to margin of K2. A handsomely bound eighteenth-century edition of the Church of England liturgy bound for the Mayor of Liverpool and merchant slave trader William Crosbie. ESTC locates three copies of this quarto edition in British libraries BL Bristol and Oxford and a further two in North America Brown and Pennsylvania. ESTC N32792. Quarto. Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill unknown
1620257033Lutetiae Parisiorum i.e. Paris: E Typographia Renati Giffart 1620. Title-page printed in red and black with large engraved vignette by Jaspar issac. Printed in red and black throughout illustrated with full-page engravings engraved borders woodcut initial capitals in red and printed music. 1 vols. Folio. Early calf nineteenth century marbled endpapers. Covers much worn joints cracked spine perished. Defective copy lacking numerous leaves but with 17 iinserted leave printed on velllum including the entire "Canon Missae" 8 leaves. Title-page printed in red and black with large engraved vignette by Jaspar issac. Printed in red and black throughout illustrated with full-page engravings engraved borders woodcut initial capitals in red and printed music. 1 vols. Folio. Bbl-7CcDD7-EE6 &HH7-II2 are printed on parchment. OCLC: 633338957 1 copy E Typographia Renati Giffart unknown
1811180964Boston: Joshua Belcher 1811. Second edition expanded in a lovely contemporary Boston binding executed for Christopher Gore 1758-1827 Massachusetts lawyer Federalist politician and U.S. diplomat. Gore's name is stamped in gilt on the front cover and his ownership inscription is on the half title. Born in Boston Gore was educated at Harvard and closely allied with figures like John Adams and Rufus King. He was known for his support of the Constitution commercial interests and Anglo-American cooperation. Before serving as a U.S. Senator 1809-1813 he worked as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts and a commissioner under the Jay Treaty helping resolve post-Revolutionary War disputes between the United States and Great Britain. He died in Boston and his sermon was preached at King's Chapel on 11 March 1827. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo 217 x 130 mm pp. viii 360. Contemporary Boston green straight-grain morocco smooth spine divided by gilt fillets ornaments in compartments covers bordered with gilt rolls "C. Gore" in gilt on front cover board edges and turn-ins gilt marbled endpapers edges gilt. Old pencil ownership inscription on initial blank. One corner slightly bumped initial leaves foxed contents mildly toned. A very good copy. unknown
1750D11002Venice: Nella Stamperia Bragadina 1750. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes 8vo 193 x 127mm. Vol. I: 2 224 i. e. 223 16 18; Vol. II: 2 323 1 leaves including engraved additional titles. Full-page engraved title pages of Old Testament history feasts temple scenes by Francesco Griselini 1717-1783 born in Venice who lived as an academic and journalist but later worked as an engraver. Hebrew text. Contemporary red morocco gilt and gilt edges marbled endpapers morocco label on spine MACASOR ITALIANO; corners bumped and light edgewear Vol. 2 joints splitting; Vol. 1 covers warped with light dampstaining to opening leaves additional title partly detached but present scattered light foxing repaired clean tear across leaf 192. An excerpt from Midrash Mishlei the haggadic midrash from the Book of Proverbs in contemporary hand on recto of leaf 20. Bound at the end of Volume 2 are three leaves of contemporary manuscript in Hebrew by Leah Ashkenazi in memory of her deceased husband Yehuda Hayyim Finzi brother-in-law Yosef Hai Finzi sons Nehemya and Meir and brother Shlomo Hai additions later dated 1770 by pencil notes. The Prayer Book has likely been part of the prominent Jewish-Italian Finzi family library since its publication. <br/><br/>According to Sephardic rite the prayers and customs for the New Year festival Rosh ha Shanah must be outlined in liturgical books like these. Venetian Jewish community life prospered in the early modern era despite poor living conditions. As the communities were centered on following ritual and custom Venice became a strong center of Jewish knowledge and learning. The next two centuries saw a fortunate Golden Age for Venetian Jews where commerce and scholarship flourished under their influence. During this period Venice was home to many famous Jewish poets physicians and other personalities. By 1750 the year of this publication the Golden Age for Venetian Jews was just beginning to wane as many prominent families left the city due to new constraints. The Bragadina press renowned Christian printers of Hebrew books was founded by one of the oldest and most influential families in Venice. Despite such sway restrictions owing to the Counter Reformation and Roman Inquisition in Europe meant a ban on the printing of Hebrew books in Venice from 1554 to 1563. The prohibition was eventually lifted in 1575 when printing resumed and business picked up. For the next two centuries the Bragadina publishers enjoyed a relative monopoly of Hebrew printing in Venice where their considerable output spread to customers around Europe and North Africa. Rare find for Judeo-Venetian printing and uncommon edition OCLC locates a copy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Nella Stamperia Bragadina hardcover
B000E1Q0MCNew. Brand new and still unused unknown
1896AQ28784Mechliniae i.s. Mechelen: H. Dessain 1896. xli 502 60 24pp 2. With a half tile. Printed in red and black. Elaborately bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco device of seated christ proffering book with Greek letters alpha and omega within ornate border to both boards A.E.G. with eight divisional red moire cloth tabs one partially perished gilt dentelles decorated endpapers. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Internally immaculate. An exquisitely bound late nineteenth-century Continental edition of the Roman Missal. The Roman Missal with origins in the high middle ages is the liturgical book from which the text and rubrics for the celebration of Catholic Mass with both prayers and music. One of the major advances of the Council of Trent the Catholic counter to the Protestant Reformation was to standardise the Missal. Pope Pius V acting on the concilliar deciion formalised this in his Quo Primum on 14 July 1570 - insisting that the standard form of the Missal was used throughout the Church except where a local missal could be proved to be of two centuries antiquity. Perhaps one of the most controversial Counter-Reformation decisions made at Trent the use of a standard Missal prevented the celebration of the Mass in vernacular languages and signified a further strengthening of Papal authority: particularly as all printed editions were prefaced by the Pope's order of standardisation. The Missal of Pius V was further edited by Clement VIII in 1604 and later by Urban VIII in 1634. . Large 8vo. H. Dessain hardcover
1538ST19567-018Venetiis Venice: in officina heredum Luceantonii Junte hiers of Lucantonio Giunta 1538. 149 x 104 mm. 5 7/8 x 4". 8 143 of 144 leaves lacking leaf p6. <br/> Contemporary Venetian morocco rebacked preserving original blind-ruled spine and corners rounded off and renewed covers each with blind-ruled borders and a gilt- and blind-ruled panel with gilt fleurons in each inner and outer corner central gilt IHS monogram raised bands brass clasps renewed all edges gilt and gauffered lacking final endleaf. Printer's device on title numerous historiated woodcut initials first page of text with woodcut border two full-page woodcut illustrations. Printed in red and black. Essling 181; Sander 5970 under "autres éditions"; EDIT 16 CNCE 11880. Original spine somewhat crackled bottom compartment with slight surface loss perhaps from removal of a label covers with several but insignificant small dings very minor dampstain at extreme top edge of a few leaves other trivial imperfections but a clean fresh and bright copy in an attractive early binding.<br/> <br/> Offered in what is probably its original binding this is a very rare edition of a Psalter done by one of the leading Venetian printing families of the 15th and 16th centuries. A major figure in the Italian book trade Lucantonio Giunta 1457-1538 began his career as a bookseller in Venice in 1477 and became a printer there in 1489. Together with family members and carefully arranged partnerships Giunta expanded his printing empire into numerous cities in Europe including Lyon Lisbon Antwerp Frankfurt and Salamanca. The present book was printed just after the death of Lucantonio whose heirs would continue to run the family business which grew prosperous in part because of its specialty in producing liturgical works such as this. The contents here are routine but the well-preserved decorative period binding makes the volume definitely worth having. in officina heredum Luceantonii Junte [hiers of Lucantonio Giunta] unknown
1759108420Venice: for Giambattista Albrizzi 1759. Prettily bound liturgical devotion A very attractive Venetian printing of the Little Office of Our Lady in the reformed Breviary of Pius V the text in French and Latin prettily bound. This edition is rare no copy being located in institutional holdings worldwide. Giambattista Albrizzi is best known as the printer of a monumental edition of Gerusalemme liberata 1745. Octavo 205 x 134 mm. Engraved title vignette and 3 full-page engravings all with contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary calf sides with wide decorative borders in gilt with central circular black morocco onlays decorated in gilt marbled endpapers gilt edges. Housed in a contemporary mottled calf pull-off slipcase lined with decorative paper gilt rules. A little rubbed but a very handsome copy of this illustrated prayer book. unknown
170643961Amsterdam: Moseh Mendez Coutinho 1706. Hardcover. poor to g. Duodecimo. 6.5x4.5". 8 347pp. 1 401-611pp. 8. Jewish year = 5466. Original dark brown pebbled leather boards. Gauffered and gilt edges. Title page illustrated with decorative woodblock floral motifs bordering the text. The publication is an early Spanish-language Jewish daily prayer book siddur which also includes prayers for various Jewish Holidays including the Sabbath Hannukah Purim and the Shalosh Regalim Three Pilgrimage Festivals: Passover Sukkot and Shavuot. Also included are the Torah portions Parshiot and Haftorot to be read on those occasions.<br /> <br /> This prayer book was published by Moseh Mendez Coutinho following a similar title and formatting to a number of other earlier editions dating back to the 1681 publication by David Tartas. Starting with Tartas' subsequent edition from 1690 these book also included the torah portions and haftorot. This and other publications of Jewish liturgy served members of the then sizable Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. A significant portion of the community would have been ex-Marranos Jews who had outwardly converted to Catholicism during the inquisition in Spain who then immigrated and were able to reestablished their Jewish identity and thus were unable to read Hebrew hence the text's publication in Spanish. <br /> <br /> The first section contains a few prayers transliterated into Spanish from the Hebrew followed by daily prayers p.9-134 Sabbath prayers p.134-262 prayers for Rosh-Hodesh Celebration of the new month p.262-309 and Hanukkah Purim and others 309-347. Following an additional title page with decorative woodblock borders is a section containing prayers related to the three festivals Passover Shavuot and Sukkot respectively p.401-611. All text in Spanish. <br /> <br /> BOUND WITH<br /> The final unpaginated eight pages included a table of contents for the various prayers and a six-page Hebrew-Gregorian calendar with tables for tracking the new months festivals and fast days covering the years 1705-1716 including a title page decorated with a woodblock border. Some sections throughout the text with decorative initials. <br /> <br /> Binding with spine and some pieces of the leather on the covers missing. Rubbing scratches and chipping to extremities. Binding loose with starting at endpapers title page and a number of other pages throughout the text. Light sporadic water stains and foxing to some pages throughout. A few small holes on a few pages with minimal loss of text. Binding in poor interior in good condition overall. References: KAYSERLING 1890 p. 60gives 12° PALAU 1923 202353gives 16° SILVARO- SA 1933 48 corrects Kayserling PEETERS 1933 1028. Moseh Mendez Coutinho hardcover
174121236291741. Venice: Antonio Bortoli. 15 September 1741. Folio. Contemporary red morocco over wooden boards elaborately tooled in gilt with floral borders and central lozenge around image of Crucifixion on upper board and the Virgin and Child on lower board; floral corner-pieces spine gilt-tooled in compartments with floral tools block-printed decorated pastedowns over marbled pastedowns 6 purple silk fore-edge tabs 2 detached purple silk page-marker; pp. 28 text in Armenian printed throughout in red and black with instructions for the deacon and celebrating clergy in red main text in double columns title page printed within engraved architectural border enclosed within larger border of the figures of the Evangelists the Apostles and the 24 Prophets with their names in Armenian two engraved full-page illustrations in pagination one signed ""Zucchi"" after Peter Paul Rubens the other after Maarten de Vos woodcut initials head- and tailpieces; a few minor scuffs to boards one tiny wormhole to upper board and two to lower extremities and spine lightly rubbed; pin worm-holes to gutter two tiny holes to outer margin of C4-ad finem all far from printed surface light dust-soiling and marginal dampstaining first quire coming loose a few small wax drops but overall a very good fresh copy.Extremely rare Armenian missal according to the rite of the Armenian Catholic Church published in Venice.The long tradition of Armenian printing in Venice dates back to 1512 when the first book ever printed in the Armenian language Urbatagirk ""Friday Book"" was published by the Venice-based Armenian printer Hakob Meghapart. In 1695 Antonio Bortoli obtained from the Venetian authorities an exclusive privilege for all Armenian printing. He retained it until the arrival in Venice of Father Mekhitar of Sebaste 1676-1749 an Armenian scholar and theologian who in 1701 founded the Mekhitarist Order. The Mekhitarists an Armenian Catholic monastic congregation devoted to the revival of Armenian culture and learning have since 1717 been based on the island of San Lazzaro near Venice. One of the great centres of Armenian scholarship and printing in Europe the island soon became home to a flourishing Mekhitarist press. ""In 1788 an agreement between the Mekhitarist fathers and Bortoli's successor Francesco Bortoli reduced the latter to little more than a figurehead"" Zorzi trans.The same engraved title page was used by Bortoli for his 1733 edition of the Bible in Classical Armenian a revised edition of the 1666 Bible published by Oskan Erewants'i. The binding of our copy of the missal matches the one held at Eton College Library.We have not been able to locate any copies in the US. Library Hub records only one copy at Eton College Parikian Collection of early Armenian printing. We can add a copy in Italy Venice San Lazzaro.Voskanyan 465. See Marino Zorzi ""La produzione e la circolazione del libro"" in Storia di Venezia 1997. hardcover
1801EBLBODAMZ2KRKiev 1801. 8vo in 4s 18.5 x 11.5 cm. Pechersk Lavra Monastery of the Caves Contemporary gold-panel-stamped and gold-tooled calf by the Kiev Monastery of the Caves sewn on 4 cords with a panel stamp of Jesus on the front board 9.7 x 4.5 cm perhaps with a name in the left half of the lower border and a panel stamp of Maria with the serpent holding an apple under her feet 9.5 x 4.3 cm each in a gold-tooled border and with another gold-tooled border around the whole board gold-tooled spine with "Kanonu Paskhi" Easter Canon in Old Slavonic capitals in the second of five compartments gilt edges. The endpapers like the paper of the book itself are laid and have a blue-green cast. Easter liturgy in Old Church Slavonic with title-page and about 20 other pages printed in red and black the title in a woodcut border and with a woodcut Paschal lamb a full-page engraving of Jesus's Resurrection 10 x 6 cm on the back of the title-page all pages after the title-page with borders made up of 4 woodcut strips woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initials a 17 mm and a 9 mm series and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Set in 3 sizes of Old Slavonic poluustav cyrillic type. Printed on laid paper with a blue-green cast. A Russian Orthodox service book for Easter and the week following it in the Old Church Slavonic language printed published and bound at the Pechersk Lavra Monastery of the Caves in Kiev. The monastery was established in the 11th century. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Orthodox Churches in Russia and Ukraine developed independently. The power of the Czars allowed the Russian Orthodox Church to dominate so that the Ukrainian Church came under the Moscow Patriarchate in 1686. The Monastery of the Caves is therefore now Ukrainian Orthodox but fell under the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church when the present service book was published. It nevertheless had its own traditions and rites so that the present book should be regarded as part of the Ukrainian heritage.The only other copy we have located is at Amsterdam University Library one of three Easter service books by the Kiev Pechersk Lavra recorded on WorldCat all octavos. With a lengthy cyrillic inscription on an endleaf. The sewing is somewhat loose and as a result a few leaves are tattered at the edges. There are occasional minor smudges and drops of candle wax. Much of the gold-tooling has rubbed off the binding and the spine is slightly damaged. In spite of these minor defects the book is in good condition especially for a book of this nature.l For the Kiev bindery: S. A. Klepikov "Historical notes on Ukrainian bookbinding" in: The book collector 15 1966 pp. 135-142. unknown
94903Russia 1866. . 4to 23 x 185 cm. Illuminated manuscript on paper ff. 4 index 4 blank 344 17 lines per page alphabetic signatures and pagination of Cyrillic alphabetic numerals 35 full-page illuminations in watercolour 36 headpieces in black and gold with first lines in gilt; occasional light spotting and soiling mostly marginal. Contemporary gilt-stamped red morocco gilt spine with raised bands edges gilt and gauffered gilt endpapers; slightly rubbed lacking both clasps.<br /> An exceptionally fine example of an Old Believer liturgical book beautifully illustrated with 35 full-page illuminations.<br /><br />Created by a skilful master they depict in great detail the most significant events of the New Testament including the Annunciation the Nativity the Baptism of Christ the Ascension the Twelve Apostles and more.<br /><br />This volume was made for and used by Old Believers who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. These Old Believers refused to accept alterations and amendments to the Holy texts aimed at bringing their religious practice closer to the 'original' Greek Orthodoxy. They refused to allow sacred texts to be printed instead reproducing them as manuscripts. <br /><br />The large size of this book its high-quality paper neat script very detailed illuminations and attractive gilt binding prove beyond doubt that no expense was spared on its production. As the colophon indicates it was made for Evdokiia Ivanovna Babaeva the wife of a merchant in Kolomna which was then an important trade point near Moscow. There are records of several men with this surname in Kolomna during the mid-XIX century all of them owners of factories in the city and probably members of the same wealthy merchant family. Kolomna was also important as a centre of the Old Believer community. The city's Bishop Paul fiercely opposed Patriarch Nikon's reforms and was consequently stripped of the rank of Bishop exiled and eventually killed in 1656 rendering him a martyr in the view of many Old Believers.A century later 156 Old Believers were officially registered in Kolomna then a city of 5400 inhabitants. Many more practised their beliefs in secret to avoid persecution.<br /><br />This volume later belonged to Cornelius J. Hauck 1893-1967 whose outstanding and somewhat eclectic collection was formed with the help of the well-respected antiquarian bookseller Emil Offenbacher between 1945 and 1965. The collection was given to the Cincinnati Historical Society Library in 1966 where it remained largely unknown to the world until part of it was auctioned by Christie's in New York in 2006.<br /><br />Russian manuscripts of this quality and preserved in such pristine condition are extremely rare.<br /> S.S. Mikhailov Istoriya staroobriadchestva g. Kolomna i ego okrestnostey Kolomna Staroobriadcheskaya obshchina khrama Nikoly na Posade v g. Kolomna 2013. Russia, [1866]. hardcover
