Derome binding.- Liturgy, Greek.- Leitourgiai tōn hagiōn paterōn [graece], 2 parts in 1, collation: *2, A-P6; a-b4, A-F6, G-Z4; [4], 179, [1]; [16], 212 (i.e. 208) pp., woodcut device on both titles, wooduct decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, lower margin of first two leaves water-stained and browned, foxing in places, later engraved portrait of the editor Claude de Sainctes tipped in to verso of front flyleaf, 18th-century red morocco, ascribed to Nicolas-Denis Derôme, covers framed in triple gilt fillet, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and imprint on double green lettering-pieces, compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, covers slightly scratched, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, but overall a handsome copy, folio (289 x 189mm.), Paris, Guillaume Morel, 1560. ⁂ A splendid and rare edition of the Greek Liturgy, finely issued by the Royal printer Guillaume Morel, and edited by Claude Sainctes (1525-1591), whose name is mentioned in the preface appended to the second part of this Parisian publication. The Greek text is supplemented, in the second part, with its Latin translation, introduced by the title Liturgiae siue missae sanctorum patrum. In addition the work contains writings by the Greek Fathers Basilius Magnus, Ioannes Chrysostomus, and Saint Jacobus. The book is rightly considered one of the masterpieces published by the Typographia Graeca founded by King of France, François I. This copy is in a fine gilt-tooled red morocco binding, executed by the leading 18th century Parisian binder Nicolas-Denis Derôme (1731-1790). Provenance: early ownership inscription on the title-page, erased in ink; 'Ecole Sainte Genevieve' (stamp on the title-page); 'J. M. De Chateaugiron', 'Skinos' (both ex-libris on the front pastedown). Literature: Adams L842.
Derome binding.- Liturgy, Greek.- Leitourgiai tōn hagiōn paterōn [graece], 2 parts in 1, collation: *2, A-P6; a-b4, A-F6, G-Z4; [4], 179, [1]; [16], 212 (i.e. 208) pp., woodcut device on both titles, wooduct decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, lower margin of first two leaves water-stained and browned, foxing in places, later engraved portrait of the editor Claude de Sainctes tipped in to verso of front flyleaf, 18th-century red morocco, ascribed to Nicolas-Denis Derôme, covers framed in triple gilt fillet, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and imprint on double green lettering-pieces, compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, covers slightly scratched, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, but overall a handsome copy, folio (289 x 189mm.), Paris, Guillaume Morel, 1560. ⁂ A splendid and rare edition of the Greek Liturgy, finely issued by the Royal printer Guillaume Morel, and edited by Claude Sainctes (1525-1591), whose name is mentioned in the preface appended to the second part of this Parisian publication. The Greek text is supplemented, in the second part, with its Latin translation, introduced by the title Liturgiae siue missae sanctorum patrum. In addition the work contains writings by the Greek Fathers Basilius Magnus, Ioannes Chrysostomus, and Saint Jacobus. The book is rightly considered one of the masterpieces published by the Typographia Graeca founded by King of France, François I. This copy is in a fine gilt-tooled red morocco binding, executed by the leading 18th century Parisian binder Nicolas-Denis Derôme (1731-1790). Provenance: early ownership inscription on the title-page, erased in ink; 'Ecole Sainte Genevieve' (stamp on the title-page); 'J. M. De Chateaugiron', 'Skinos' (both ex-libris on the front pastedown). Literature: Adams L842.
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