Officia de SS. Eucharistiae Sacramento : et de Conceptione B.V.M. necnon propria Sanctorum Societatis Jesu : juxta ritum Breviarii Romani ad usum ejusdem Societatis : juxta exemplar Neapoli impressum 1696.
1710
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Officia de SS. Eucharistiae Sacramento : et de Conceptione B.V.M. necnon propria Sanctorum Societatis Jesu : juxta ritum Breviarii Romani ad usum ejusdem Societatis : juxta exemplar Neapoli impressum 1696.
Uniform title
Officia propria. Jesuits
Created/published
Londini [i.e. London] : [publisher not identified], 1710.
Description
2 pts. (351 pages) ; 16 cm (12mo)
Corporate author
Catholic Church.
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FAST ACC 271714 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "Officia de SS. Eucharistiae Sacramento, et de conceptione B.V.M. necnon propria sanctorum Societatis Jesu. Juxta ritum Breviarii Romani ad usum patrum ejusdem Societatis. Juxta exemplar Neapoli impressum 1696. Londini [London] 1710. 12mo. (15 cms. x 8.8 cms.), pp. 351 [1]. Page [209] a second title-page. First title-page with a cross constructed of typographical ornament, second with woodcut Jesuit device. Light or medium browning, some contents loosening, some soiling, clean tear (no loss), pp. 89-90. Still a good copy, bound in contemporary dark polished calf, spine with five raised bands (excluding head or tail), covers gilt-ruled, remains of gilt to spine, a.e.g. (binding rubbed and slightly worn, top joint cracking, lacking headcap). Inscription to f.f.e.p. verso: "Leigh" (see below), and (in different hand), to title-page "St Geor:". Later price in pencil to front pastedown (30/-). Interesting copy of this rare surreptitious London printing of liturgies for Jesuits - the only British printing of this title recorded. In most part the book is a copy of a publication of Naples, 1696, as stated on the title-page; however, comparison with that edition shows that ours has a rewritten set of brief notes at beginning, including (note one) on a papal liturgical concession for the English members of the Jesuit order. We believe, from comparison with a signature in a manuscript in Yale's Beinecke Library (Osborn fb229, [Collection of lives of British Catholic saints]), that our copy was owned by the Jesuit missionary and author Philip Leigh (1650/51-1717). Leigh, a native of Lancashire who was educated at the English college of St. Omer and at the English college of Rome, was a missionary for years in Gateshead and also in London. From around 1710 he was chaplain to the earl of Powis at Powis castle in Wales. From around 1713 he was head of the Jesuit mission in the English Catholic cult centre of Holywell, and superior of the Jesuits of north Wales. He preached a sermon before the mayor of Newcastle, that was printed in 1688, and is believed to have edited a life of St. Winifred that was printed in London, 1713 (Geoffrey Holt in ODNB). Another edition of this liturgical collection, with differences to title and pagination, perhaps also intended for an English Jesuit audience, was printed in Douai in 1710 (Backer-Sommervogel). Backer-Sommervogel XI 133 number 977. ESTC T186091 (Cambridge, Heythrop College; St. Mark's Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario). OCLC adds University of Queensland and Emory, and COPAC adds Campion Hall Oxford (listed in the catalogue via Senate House Library). "|Ordered from Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd, D9362 2019-11-05, email quote.
Folger accession
271714