Catholic Church. Liturgy & Ritual.

Ordo Ministrandi Sacramentum Extremæ-Unctionis…denuo mandato.

C. Simon Printer to the Prince de Condé, the Duke of Bourbon and the Archiepiscopate, Paris 1777.

4to (241 x 169 mm.). 16p. In Latin and French. Woodcut archiepiscopal arms on the title.

Contemporary gilt-ruled red morocco, flat spine tooled à la grotesque with vertically lettered title, all edges gilt, blue silk marker (detached).

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           Ordo Communicandi Infirmos…denuo mandato.  Paris, C. Simon 1777. 4to. 16p. In Latin and French. Woodcut archiepiscopal arms on the title.

            Ad I-II: Unrecorded printings done for Archbishop of Paris, Christophe de Beaumont (1703-81), who rigorously suppressed any and all theological propositions with even a whiff of Jansenism. The present texts are products of his campaign to extirpate the heresy. In both works, detailing the standard liturgies of Extreme Unction and Communion of the Sick, the Latin formulas to be read aloud, bedside, by the priest, have the stressed syllables marked, so the less fluent could correctly pronounce their portions of the ritual. I have only identified one other independent printing in France of the first work (Paris, C. Simon 1786. 8vo. 99p.), produced at the command of Beaumont’s successor, A.-É.-L. Le Cerc de Juigné, who altered both the Latin and the French texts. I found no separate printing of the second work in France. Both books are in good condition (tear in one leaf neatly repaired); signature of English liturgical scholar William Maskell (1814-1890), who had a large library of patristic literature, and collected medieval service books.

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