Ceremonial des religieuses de la Congregation de Nostre-Dame : acomode a l'usage romain selon les rubriques du Breviaire & Missel & conformement au Ceremonial & Rituel Romains /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Congrégation de Notre-Dame
Other Authors: Chevalier, Andre (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:French
Latin
Language Notes:In French and Latin.
Published: A Luxembourg : Ches Andre Chevalier, imprimeur & libraire ordinaire du roi, 1690.
Edition:Troisieme ed.
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Description
Item Description:Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; ornamental initials; roman and italic types.
Approval signed by Jean Pierre, bishop of Arbe, and dated in Treves (Trier, Germany) on March 23, 1689; cf. page [2].
Dedication to Jean Pierre Verhost, bishop of Arbe, by the sisters of the Congregation de Nostre Dame; cf. pages [3]-[4].
Description of altars, vestments, ceremonies, and other aspects of religious life of the sisters of the Congregation de Nostre Dame, compiled to ensure exactitude and uniformity throughout all the houses of the Congregation. Text is arranged in four parts: the first describes church furnishings and bell-ringing; part two describes how the ceremonies of the Divine Office should be conducted; part three deals with the ceremonies of convent life, including how to receive postulates and novices, the profession of vows, election of a mother superior, and reception of a bishop; and the final part describes how to administer the sacraments to the ill and the dying. Includes liturgical music and psalms.
Liturgical music arranged on black 4-line staves, with square chant notation in black; Latin words.
Physical Description:4 unnumbered pages, 218, 177 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : music ; 21 cm. (quarto)