Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

117 c   (MANUSCRIPT.) In festo Sancti Marcelli Episcopi [with In festo Sancti Clementis Papae & Martyris]. manuscript in latin on paper, written in brown ink in italic script with headings in roman. Contemporary engravings of SS. Marcellus and Clement bound in. 182 pages, [13] leaves, the last 10 blank. 190x129 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt with arms of an unidentified lesser prelate on covers, joints rubbed, top of spine chipped, cover corners worn through; marginal toning and soiling through most of volume. France, 18th century [500/750] Liturgy for the Feasts of St.Marcellus, Bishop of Paris (d. circa 430), and St.Clement of Rome, Pope (d. 99). 116 117