The monastic breviary laid out by the command of Pope Paul V - Lot 41

The monastic breviary laid out by the command of Pope Paul V for all those who militate under the rule of B. P. S. Benoist. Paris, Pierre de Bats, 1688. In-8, new edition revised and corrected according to the Roman Breviary, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Part du Printemps. Bound in full black morocco with clasps, the boards framed with triple fillets, chains and stamped with an important Masonic central iron depicting the radiant Delta or Eye of Providence surmounting an altar on which rests an open book and a chalice, spine richly decorated with 5 nerves, all edges gilt. (bookplate scratched on the flyleaf, lower gutter cracked, last leaves restored in the margins, binding rubbed, gilding missing).