Richly Bound Roman Ritual
[RITUAL.]
Rituale della venerabile Archiconfraternita delle Sagre Stimmate del padre S. Francesco di Roma.
Rome, nella stamperia del Bernabò, 1711.
4to, pp. [12], 223, [1 (blank)]; woodcut Franciscan device to title, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; a little light foxing, occasional browning; good in eighteenth-century vellum over boards; gilt border and cornerpieces to covers, with large central gilt arms of the Caetani family, edges sprinkled red and green; a few small wormholes to spine, some small abrasions to covers, boards slightly bowed, a little worming to pastedowns.
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Rituale della venerabile Archiconfraternita delle Sagre Stimmate del padre S. Francesco di Roma.
Uncommon revised second edition (first 1669) of the Ritual of the Archconfraternity of the Sacred Stigmata of St Francis in Rome (established in 1594), in an attractive binding bearing the arms of the noble Caetani family.
The text is divided into five books. The first describes the duties of the confraternity’s officers, including the readers of the martyrology, choristers, and superintendent of the dead. The second comprises a collection of general rules, covering, for example, genuflexion, the use of candles, readings, reciting litanies, relics, Masses, spiritual exercises, attending the sick, and so on. The third and fourth books deal with the confraternity’s oratory and church: the celebration of various offices and feasts, the profession of novices, discipline, displaying the Eucharist and the blood of St Francis etc. The final book is devoted to processions to different churches on particular days and during jubilees, and accompanying the dead for burial.
Only one copy traced in the UK (Lambeth Palace), and four in the US (Illinois, Notre Dame, Saint Bonaventure, UCLA).
