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Published by Creative Communications for the Parish, 2019
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Language: English
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Series: Book 2 of 8 - CATHOLIC SUNDAY AND DAILY MASS READINGS WITH NEW ORDER OF MASS
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Language: English
Published by Creative Communications for the Parish, 2019
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Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
More imagesPublished by St. Mark's Press, Wichita, Kansas, 1991
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Seller: Aspen Book Co., Denver, CO, U.S.A.Aspen Book Co.
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Language: English
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Series: Book 6 of 8 - CATHOLIC SUNDAY AND DAILY MASS READINGS WITH NEW ORDER OF MASS
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Published by St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 1976
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. plastic comb binding. some foxing to page ends, split in the comb binding, light edge wear.
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Condition: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.
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Language: English
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Series: Book 3 of 8 - CATHOLIC SUNDAY AND DAILY MASS READINGS WITH NEW ORDER OF MASS
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Language: Spanish
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Series: Book 4 of 8 - CATHOLIC SUNDAY AND DAILY MASS READINGS WITH NEW ORDER OF MASS
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Lectionary Revision in Sarum Brevaries and The Origins of The Early Printed Editions. 21 pages. An article printed in 2006, written by Sherry L. Reames.
LECTIONARY REVISION IN SARUM BREVARIES AND THE ORIGINS OF THE EARLY PRINTED EDITIONS
Published by Journal of The Early Book Society, London, 2006
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. 21 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 22cms. Categ…ory: Journal of The Early Book Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).
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Published by 50th International Eucharistic Congress, Dublin, 2012
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 2012. 464pp. Colour images and musical score. "This edition of MAGNIFICAT contains the readings and liturgical texts which will be used at the Congress liturgies both in the RDS Arena and in Croke Park". Book in excellent condition. No insciptions.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Language: English
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Series: Book 6 of 8 - CATHOLIC SUNDAY AND DAILY MASS READINGS WITH NEW ORDER OF MASS
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Series: Book 1 of 2 - Episcopal Holy Communion Service and Liturgical Readings Book
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hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Missing jacket. The dust jacket of the book is missing.
Language: Spanish
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Series: Book 4 of 8 - CATHOLIC SUNDAY AND DAILY MASS READINGS WITH NEW ORDER OF MASS
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More imagesPublished by Levant, possibly Aleppo, 15th or 16th century CE.
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Add to basket4to (170 x 230 mm). 147 ff. Arabic manuscript on laid, watermarked Ottoman paper. Black naskh script, punctuated in red. Original Byzantine monastic binding (alla Greca style) of 10 mm thick wooden boards, cut flush with the text block, covered with full goat or sheepskin leather, moulded and cut to fit around endbands and exten…ded at rear, blind-tooled with a two-lined frame enclosing a two-lined cross and diagonal lines. An Arabic Gospel lectionary acquired from the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, on 18 December 1733, with an inscription in an early Spanish hand, "Este livro de Evangelios es del Conv.do de Belen. Se compro en 18 d. Dez. 1733". - This Gospel lectionary was copied in Arabic for a Byzantine Orthodox or Melkite rite religious observance. The manuscript follows the course of a calendar year with gospel readings selected for each occasion of observance. The end of the lectionary year terminates with the feast of the Holy Sash of the Virgin Mary on the 31st of August. - The lectionary was the primary format of the Gospels used in the Arabic-speaking Eastern church, while the continuous Gospels were much less frequently used. A fixed version of the Arabic lectionary seems to have existed from at least the 8th century onwards. At a time when personal reading of the Bible was rare, these Gospel books were designed to be read in church. - The lectionary principally contains readings from the Gospel of St John with further passages from St Luke and St Matthew. It wants a few early pages, but remains bound in its original alla Greca binding, which consists of two plates of wood covered in goat skin and raised cords on either end of the spine; groups of quires have been stitched with thick horizontal threads. - Early binding a touch loose, shows minor wear. Wanting beginning leaves; light soiling. In good condition. - 1) Spanish purchase inscription denoting the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, 1733 CE. - 2) Abu Sama'an, a carpenter and Muchtar of the Syrian Orthodox Church, who sold antiquities from his workshop and home overlooking Bethlehem square. - 3) Purchased from Abu Sama'an in 1968 by Father Howard Carlson, Director of the Presbyterian Church Hospital in Bethlehem, 1965 to 1974. - 4) Sam Fogg, 2017.
More imagesTEXT FROM ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM'S HOMILY LXXI ON MATTHEW 22
AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE WHITE-VINE INITIAL
Published by second half of 12th century, Austria (Salzburg)
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Add to basket319 x 244 mm. (12 1/2 x 9 1/2"). Single column, 27 lines, in a lovely proto-gothic hand. Rubrics in red, two one-line initials and one two-line initial in red, WITH A LARGE (140 mm.) WHITE-VINE INITIAL INHABITED BY A BIRD, outlined in red and filled in with blue and green. Lower margin of recto with a 20th century note in red in…k identifying the text. Recovered from a binding and thus with overall darkening, top half of verso somewhat soiled, with top line obscured (though with all other letters on both sides very distinct), cut a little close to the thin red extension of the initial, a few minor holes (inlcuding one elongated one through the top part of the initial, with minimal loss). Even with these defects, a powerfully attractive leaf with memorable decoration and script. Containing a beautiful proto-gothic script and an exceptional Romanesque initial, this leaf is a particularly desirable example of early Austrian manuscript production. The opening initial "F" is formed with foliate designs outlined in red, given shape by coloring in the negative space with an intense azure blue and moss green. Adding to the initial's charm is a large bird perched on one of the curving branches, turning its head to the right as if to read the text (like the initial, it is also outlined in red). The white-vine style seen here would later become a model for the Italian Humanist scribes and illuminators of 15th and 16th centuries, who substituted glistening gold leaf for the vibrant yellow paint favored by some artists of the Romanesque period. The text here is from St. John Chrysostom's homily on St. Matthew 22:34-40, an account of the Pharisees questioning Jesus on God's law, asking "which commandment in the law is the greatest?" Jesus famously replies with the key tenets of the Christian faith: "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets." This text was the Gospel reading for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, preceded by the incipit "Frequenter iudei diversis interrogationibus" ("The Jews repeatedly tested him with various questions"). The present leaf almost certainly belonged to a Lectionary owned by a Romanesque church in Salzburg, a manuscript that was later dismembered for use in bookbinding. According to the source from which we purchased this leaf, it was shown in 1893 to the Medieval historian (and later the Abbot of St. Peter's, Salzburg) Willibald Hauthaler (1843-1922), who wrote the identification in red ink along the lower edge. It was later owned by the Salzburg-based merchant, artist, and collector Carl von Frey (1826-96). It appeared at Christie's in 2010 where (along with five sister leaves) it sold for £13,970.
More imagesPublished by Dayr al-Shuwayr, Kisrawan, Lebanon, Dayr Mar Yuhanna al-Sabigh (Monastery of St. John the Baptist), 1813 CE., 1813
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Add to basketFolio (228 x 315 mm). 226 pp. Printed in red and black Arabic letterpress throughout. Contemporary blind tooled binding with central Greek cross of arabesque elements within a plant motif frame and internal corner tools. Second edition of an Eastern Christian liturgical text used by the Maronite Church, first issued in 1775, and… a mature product of the celebrated Shuwayr press, comprising portions of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha appointed to be read on Festivals throughout the year, according to the services of the Greek Church. - The typography reflects the established house style of the Shuwayr foundry founded by Abdallah Zakher, whose Arabic punches and matrices sustained Catholic printing in Mount Lebanon and the wider Levant for more than a century. The printing office of the Melkite monastery of St. John the Baptist at al-Shuwayr in the Lebanese Kisrawan mountains was operative between 1734 and 1899, during which time it produced in all 69 Arabic books, including re-editions (cf. Silvestre de Sacy I, pp. 412-414; Middle Eastern Languages and the Print Revolution. A Cross-Cultural Encounter, Westhofen 2002, pp. 179-181). - The volume preserves a coherent series of handwritten Arabic inscriptions documenting its sustained use within a Maronite clerical family. An early note dated 1 November 1835 records the book as assigned to the deacon Musa Shukr Allah, specifying that he was nine years old at the time. Subsequent entries record the births of male children within the same family in 1856, 1858, and 1867, reflecting the customary use of liturgical books as repositories of family record. A later and particularly informative inscription dated 19 February 1880 records the departure of the youngest child, later known as Yusuf Awdi Fadl al Surukan (?), for Beirut, to be placed under the authority of Iqlimisi Yusuf Dahud, the Syriac Catholic archbishop of Mosul, for formal education with the Jesuits, explicitly in preparation for priesthood. Together these inscriptions provide rare, continuous evidence of private Maronite clerical ownership, intergenerational transmission, and direct connection to Beirut-based ecclesiastical education in the late Ottoman period. - As a survival of early 19th-century Christian Arabic printing from Mount Lebanon, the book bears witness to the intellectual and devotional vitality of Near Eastern Catholic communities, now further distinguished by its documented life in use. - Well preserved with text block generally clean; scattered light toning and stains. Loss to lower board corners and other small defects professionally repaired. Altogether in good condition. - Ownership inscription recorded on 1 Nov. 1835 for "Deacon Musa who was nine years old at the time"; family records of the births of three male children in 1856, 1858, and 1867. A later inscription dated 19 Feb. 1880 records the departure of the youngest child to Beirut to pursue priesthood. Two colophons with images, the first of which is printed "ex antiqua gemma hujus magniitudinis" and another icon "finiti le Lettere e i Vangeli". - Nasrallah 43.
More imagesPublished by typis Fratrum Praedicatorum (= Dominican printing office),, Mosul,, 1879
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Add to basketSyriac lectionary printed at the Dominican Press of Mosul, here in its first and only edition by Clemens Joseph David (1829-1890). Clemens Joseph David was a prominent scholar of the Syriac Catholic Church, who was greatly admired for his knowledge of the Syriac language (a form of Aramaic), history, literature and liturgy by th…e most distinguished European Syriac scholars. In 1879, he became Archbishop of Damascus. The present lectionary is one of his principal Syriac publications.A lectionary is a book containing a collection of scripture readings (pericopes) which are appointed to be read on particular days of the year, here excluding the lent term in June (according to the title).The present work also includes a preface, written by Ignatius Jirjis Shalhat, Patriarch of Antioch. The Dominican Press of Mosul played a major role in the formation and education of Chaldean and Syriac Catholic intellectuals in the late 19th and early 20th century. As the Mosul Dominican Press was "a melting pot of Syriac and Latin theological traditions", the present Lectionarium Syriacum shows us - even more because of the Latin title-page - how the Syriac Christian tradition goes hand in hand with the liturgical traditions of the Roman Church. The work is extremely rare: we have traced no copy ever offered for sale and only three copies in institutional libraries (the British Library and the university libraries of Bonn and Bamberg) making the present copy the fourth copy known.Binding slightly worn around the edges. Some small marginal tears and some browning to the first and last leaves, but overall in good condition. An extremely rare Syriac liturgical work.l Cf. J.F. Coakley & David G.K. Taylor, "Syriac books printed at the Dominican Press, Mosul", in: George Kiraz (ed.), Malphono w-Rabo d-Malphone (2008), pp. 71-110 ; Gabriel Oussani, "The modern Chaldeans and Nestorians, and the study of Syriac among them", in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 22 (1901), pp. 79-96. Contemporary half blue sheepskin, blue cloth sides, gold-tooled spine lettered (in Syriac) in gold, marbled endpapers. With a Latin title-page set in roman type and a Syriac title-page set in Syriac type, both within a red and blue ornamental frame. Preliminary leaves also set within a red ornamental frame. Text set in Syriac type and printed in black and red. With a few religious illustrations throughout the text. Pages: 648 pp.
More imagesWITH READINGS FROM MATTHEW 21:35-46 AND GENESIS 27:6-28
A VERY EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN
Published by third quarter of ninth century, Probably Germany
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Add to basket285 x 245 mm. (11 1/4 x 9 3/4"). Single column, 25 lines in a Caroline minuscule book hand. Tipped into a paper folder and presented in a tan cloth binding, with ink notation on spine and a small sticker on upper cover. Rubrics in red. Front pastedown of folder with the bookplate of the Schøyen collection. With several pages of…typed and handwritten notes, including Bernard Rosenthal's cataloguing and a copy of a letter from Bernhard Bischoff to Rosenthal concerning the dating of the leaf. âRecovered from a binding and thus with some expected browning, staining, and wrinkling, a long vertical fold through the text touching a couple letters of each line, recto with the first few words of each line roughened and somewhat obscured, a couple of other words a bit hard to make out, but the vast majority of text very legible, with fore and tail margins very ample, and, in all, quite a good specimen representing a remarkable survival. Featuring a lovely Caroline miniscule hand, this very early leaf from a Lectionary may have been made for the use of a particular church or individual, and comes with recent distinguished scholarship and provenance. Although the text here contains familiar passages from the Old and New Testaments, their juxtaposition in this context presents a bit of a conundrum: as the enclosed cataloguing explains, the story of the wicked husbandmen from Matthew followed by the story of Esau surrendering his birthright to Jacob from Genesis "is an irregular and indeed unrecorded liturgical sequence of texts and suggests that this particular collection of lections was compiled for a particular church or private chapel." It is also possible that the Lectionary was made for the use of an individual (rather than an institution) with certain needs or preferencesâ"perhaps a scholar or theologian, or even a Carolingian nobleman, many of whom were literate and educated. The hand here is an excellent example of the legible and elegant Caroline minuscule that dominated Western Europe in this period; distinctive letter forms include clubbed ascenders (such as on the letters "b," "d," and "l"), a long "s" with the shaft on the line, and the use of the ampersand as a general abbreviation for the letters "et" occurring anywhere in a word (for example, "conter&" for "conteret"). Termed the "integrated ampersand," this usage is especially characteristic of Caroline minuscule manuscripts of the late eighth and ninth centuries. Our leaf comes with bookseller Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalogue description, noting that it was "Purchased from Schab, New York, Feb. 1969." William H. Schab was a book and art dealer in the firm of Gilhofer and & Ranschburg in Vienna before fleeing Austria in 1938 and settling in New York, where he founded his own business. Also included here is a copy of a handwritten note regarding the date of the present leaf from renowned paleographer Bernard Bischoff. The leaf was also featured in Quaritch's 1991 catalogue 1147, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, V (no. 25.5), and was until recently part of the Schøyen Collection (their MS 623). Four additional pages of cataloguing are also included here. Despite having been used as binding scrap at some point in its life, this leaf is very well preserved, with no words lost from trimming, with distinctly visible ink, and in a clear and very pleasing hand.
More imagesPublished by late 11th or early 12th century, Italy
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Contact seller4-star seller413 x 285 mm. (16 1/4 x 11 1/8"). Double column, 47 lines of text in a pleasing early gothic hand. One two-line initial "M" in red. With a few lines of marginal notes in a later (16th century?) hand. âProbably lacking a line or two at the head as well as half of one column, scattered light stains with a few darker stains in one…corner (touching the text, but still legible), scattered, small wormholes, one half-inch hole affecting a few words of text, and yet a remarkably clean leaf, the remaining text entirely legible. The text here, in a very good hand, is on the death of Saint Martin of Tours. While it is more likely from a Lectionary with the reading for Martinmas (November 11), it could be from a separate copy of Sulpicius. The fourth century founder of French monasticism, Martin of Tours is celebrated as the Soloman of shawls. One of the most beloved episodes of his early life is a the tale that demonstrates the sensible limits of charity: instead of heedlessly surrendering his cloak to a shivering beggar he encounters, he sagely divides it in two, so that both he and the object of his benevolence will be warm. The script here has many lingering features of Carolingian minuscule, and this fact, plus the grand size of the leaf, combine to give it very considerable antique beauty.
