Up for consideration is a lovely very hard to find 1934 edition of
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LIBER USUALIS
With Introduction & Rubrics In English
(Edited by the Benedictines Solesmes)
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Typis Societatis S. Joannis Evangelist Tornaci {Belgium} 1934.
Hymnal in Latin and English with Gregorian square notes. Includes introduction and lesson on interpretation of notes. A Latin collection of the most commonly used Gregorian songs in the Catholic church. First published by the monks of Solesmes Abbey in France in 1896, the collection, with minor modifications, has been reissued almost every year until 1964. Its Latin name Liber (book) usualis ("use", "common", "usage") means "a book for ordinary use."
INDEX GENERALIS: Proomium; De Ritbus Servandis In Cantu Missae; Ordo Missae; Cantus Ordinarii Missae {Including} In Dominicis Ad Aspersionem Aquae Benedictae, Toni V. Gloria Patri At Introitum, Kyrie-Gloria....Etc., Modus Cantandi Alleluia Tempore Pachali; Cantus Ordinari Officii {Including} Toni Communes, Vespertini Psalmi Per Tonos Distributi, Dominica Ad Verperas, Ad Completorium; Properium De Tempore; Commune Sanctorum; Missae Votivae; In Exsequiis; Officium Et Missae Pro Defunctis; Proprium Sancrorum; Appendix {Including} Pro Gratiarum Actione, Ad Invocandum Spiritum Sanctum, Processio Ad Petendem Pluviam, ---- Ad Postulandam Serenitatem, Ordo Ad Recipiendum Processionaliter Episcopum, Ordo Ad Visitandas Parochias, De Confirmandis, In Ordinatione Presbyteri, Cantus In Benedictione SS. Oleorum, Vari Cantus Ad Benedictionem Ss. Sacramenti. This book has 1912 + 8 + 5 + 50 pages. The book contains SIX silk bookmarks. The text contains NO internal marks whatsoever. The text witten entirely in LATIN; some titles/headings in English.
Book Condition: Very Good w/ straight firm boards. No torn, loose, or missing pages; no foxing; no writing. Minimal shelfwear mainly with bumping and rubbing to corners and spine. Hinge-cracking beginning between pages xx and xxj. Very handsome book.
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