Cornelio Musso (1511-1574)

Tommaso Tamburini (1591-1675)

TWO OLD BOOKS

Cologne, 1594 and 1666
Conciones Evangeliorum De Dominicis Aliquot Et Festis Solennioribus Totius Anni, Ac Quadragesimalibus Feriis NonNis: singulari pietate & eruditione refertae, atque à multis hactenus desideratae. TOMVS PRIMVS. [31] leaves, 783 numbered pages, in Latin. Title page missing. Initials, vignette. Solid leather binding with blind-tooled decoration, spine with 4 raised bands and a painted numbered label plus numbering in pen. Published by Gerwin Calenius and the heirs of Johann Quentel in Cologne in 1594. Binding damaged, including the spine, traces of woodworm. First page of text with the stamp "K. K. GYMNASIALBIBLIOTHEK IN BRÜX", front pastedown with a Latin manuscript note transcribing the text of the missing title page. Bound with: R. P. THOMAE TAMBVRINI OPVSCVLA. DE CONFESSIONE et COMMVNIONE. Format 16°, 11x6.5 cm. METHODVS EXPEDITAE CONFESSIONIS, [17] leaves, 499 numbered pages, [20] leaves index. Bound together with: Methodus Expeditae Communionis, 259 numbered pages, [20] leaves index. Solid leather binding with blind-tooled decoration and 2 clasps, spine with 3 raised bands. Front board with the initials ".A.A.Z.S." and the date "1676". Published by Johannes Busaeus in Cologne in 1666.