Vatican

1905 · 1239413 — Rome: Typographia Polyglotta 1905. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Ex-library 3/4 leather with decorative banded spine except volume 37 which is in library buckram. Two volumes in black leather. Rest calf-colored with faded spines. Set contains volumes 1-22 24 25 and 37 from the years 1881 to 1905. Bound as 26 books. Volume 2 front board detached. Volumes 3 17 26 chipped spine. Volume 20 back gutter ripped. Gilt intact at crown and heel of calf-colored volumes. Books in very good condition. Acta Sanctae Sedis Latin for "Register of the Holy See" was a Roman monthly publication containing the principal public documents issued by the pope directly or through the Roman Congregations. It was begun in 1865 under the title of Acta Sanctæ Sedis in compendium redacta etc. and on 23 May 1904 was declared an organ of the Holy See to the extent that all documents printed in it were considered "authentic and official". It continued to exist for four more years until by the decree Promulgandi Pontificias Constitutiones 29 September 1908 Pope Pius X replaced it with the Acta Apostolicae Sedis to which he gave the status of the official gazette of the Holy See and which began publication in January 1909. Typographia Polyglotta unknown