FERRARI, Alberto Tractatus perutilis de horis canonicis: debite deo persolūedis (Rome, per Iacobum Pentium Leucensem, 1506)
A rare sixteenth century edition of a popular fifteenth century work on the clergy, their duties to themselves and their parishioners, their privileges, their legal status, their offices, their saying of the Mass, etc., with a list of punishments for breaking the regulations. It is by Alberto Ferrari, also known as Trottus, a lawyer and archpriest to several bishops of the cathedral at Padua in the first half of the fifteenth century.Censimento CNCE 33645 (locating 3 copies); this edition not in BMC; not in Adams, Sander/Rava or OCLC; RLIN locates the copy at Harvard
8vo. 48ff. (including the final colophon leaf). Large woodcut on title-page of the double-headed imperial eagle, in modern attractive vellum.
£800
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