[Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Prague]
Vetero-Pragae [Prague]: Matthiam Hoger, 1731.

The diocesan ritual of the Archdiocese of Prague, issued in the final year of the archiepiscopate of Ferdinand [Franz Ferdinand], Count von Khunburg (Archbishop of Prague, 1713-1731), and printed by Matthias Hoger in his capacity as archiepiscopal printer. Covering all of the rituals of the Catholic Church in Prague: baptism, confirmation, penance, matrimony, extreme unction, burial, exorcism, and blessings of houses, bells, and crops, together with the Prague ceremonial and processional calendar, and musical notation for the chanted rites. This copy bound without pp. 89-134 of the final parts of De Sacramento Poenitentiae, comprising the Bulla Coenae Domini and the related appendices on absolution. The absence of the Bulla is consistent across all recorded copies of the edition, however the appearance of the appendices varies, and one plate is normally found facing p. 135. The Bulla’s absence is best explained by the requirement across Catholic Europe that a papal bull needed civil sanction before it carried legal force and the Bulla Coenae Domini was among the most persistently withheld. This copy with a leather presentation plate to the front board, dated 1829, dedicating the volume “to the Reverend parish priest Carl Sternad, in remembrance, from Joseph Suchanek.”