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Very rare first edition of this collection of hymns by the Milanese archpriest of Riva San Vitale, Lorenzo Maggi, dedicated to Pope Pius V and intended for members of the clergy with limited Latin. 

Maggi here gives the text of over a hundred Latin hymns, each with an accompanying rendering into Italian and an explanation, opening with ‘Nocte surgentes vigilemus omnes’, attributed to St Gregory the Great, and ending with ‘Omnes una celebremus’. 

EDIT16 CNCE 37533; USTC 839579.  No copies traced in the US; only one copy on Library Hub (Bodleian). 

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