Caeremoniale Fratrum Minorum Recollectorum – Wolfgang Quast – 1672 | Franciscan Recollects

Caeremoniale Fratrum Minorvm Recollectorum provinciae Thuringiae S. Elisabethae, attributed to Wolfgang Quast, is a 1672 manual outlining ceremonial and disciplinary instructions for Franciscan Recollect friars of the Province of St. Elisabeth in Thuringia. It describes guidelines for observing the Divine Office, the Mass, liturgical ceremonies, expectations for clothing, and monastic disciplines.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caeremoniale Fratrum Minorvm Recollectorum provinciae Thuringiae S. Elisabethae
• Author(s): Attributed to Wolfgang Quast
• Illustrator(s): Fuldae, Marcus Blos
• Contributor(s):
• Publisher: Place, printer
• Edition: 1672. First edition.
• Format: (16mo), single volume
• Binding: Original vellum
• Size:  6.5 in x 4 in (16.5 cm x 10.2 cm)
• Collation: 163, [7]
• Illustrations:
• Contents Include:
  • Divine Office regulations
  • Instructions for Mass
  • Guidelines for processions
  • Clothing rules
  • Directives on discipline

Condition:

Good. Binding of vellum, rubbed and stained, yet secure and firm. Text block sound and complete.

Why Collect This?

• Scarce Franciscan ceremonial printed in Fulda
• Witness to Franciscan Recollect reforms in seventeenth-century Thuringia

Item Number: #29262