[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1557 Lyonaise Breviary

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(CATHOLIC CHURCH. LITURGY AND RITUAL. BREVIARIES) BREVIARUM ROMANUM, ex Sacra Potissimum Scriptura... Lyon: Theobaldum Paganum. 1557. 8vo. ff.(32),496. Indices at front. Printed in red & black. Double column text. Woodcut vignette on title. This copy ruled in red throughout. Cont. calf, with three gilt ruled panels, and each cover with a large central gilt oval ornament. All edges gilt with ornate gauffering design, the design elements painted in red. Neat old restorations to the hinges. A number of early annotations and ownership marks on the endleaves, one quite contemporary of a Johannes Gerardus.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
A rare Lyonnaise Breviary, the version of Spanish Cardinal Quignones. Not in BL French STC, or Adams. Bohatta BREVIARE #244. Baudrier IV, 271 (only citing the copy in Amiens).


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