Sagradas rubricas del misal Romano y practica general de celebrar el tremendo sacrificio de la misa PHILIPPINES. Gregorio Galindo (1684-1756); Casimiro de los Santos (b. Manila ca. 1758), artist

Bound in contemporary limp parchment (soiled). Two small papercut bookmarks, in the form of a fountain and an imperial eagle, inserted. Printed on rice paper. Text bound tightly. Edges of opening leaves frayed and with small tears; other minor tears elsewhere; leaves D1, D2, and Ll3 with tears entering the text (but without loss of paper or text), leaf Pp1 and errata leaf with marginal paper losses (not affecting the text). Leaves E1/4, Rr4, Vv1 and a few others browned; Gathering Tt spotted. Illustrated with four engraved plates bound in at pp. 118, 146 (2 plates), and 176. With two woodcut head-pieces and a woodcut initial. Xylographic signature of the Provisor Joseph de Vergara. Only one copy traced in the U.S. (SMU). A rare, illustrated eighteenth-century Filipino guide to proper celebration of the Roman Catholic mass. The text includes procedural guides and readings, while the illustrations show the proper arrangement and use of objects on the altar. With a dedication and decree of the Provisor, Joseph de Vergara, dated Manila, November 24, 1797 (stamped with his xylographic signature), on the need to standardize the practice of the ceremonies of the Mass. The four copperplate etchings were printed on one sheet that was then cut into four pieces. The images are by the secular priest Casimiro de los Santos (b. Manila ca. 1758), who was charged with acquiring and commissioning precious objects (Crucifixes, candelabra, etc.) for the convent of Santa Rosa de Lima convent (see below). The sheet is signed at the foot of the third plate and continued on the fourth "Por el B.r.[i.e. Bachiller] Casim. de los Santos." The earlier editions of the text, printed at Zaragoza (1739), Madrid (1759), Barcelona (1768), and Mexico (1778), had only one image a woodcut- corresponding to the Primera Tabula in the Manila edition. Casimiro de los Santos seems to have invented the other three images himself, apparently drawing on his experiences as master of ceremonies of the Manila cathedral (See José, p. 741) "Casimiro de los Santos engraved four plates, probably from his own designs, for the 1789 Manila edition of Gregorio Galindo s Sacred Rubrics for the Roman Missal. The first plate, Tabula Prima, depicts the order in which an altar is to be incensed; Tabula Secunda, the order of incensing a chalice in a cross-wise motion; Tabula Tertia, the order of incensing a chalice in a circular motion; and Tabula Quarta, the order of folding a corporal. At the lower right corner of Tabula Tertia we find inscribed: Por el Br. Casim. , and in the lower left of Tabula de los Santos. All Tabulae were engraved from copperplates. The engraving of the altar table is replete with rocalla-styled ramilletes (flower-like ornaments)." (Regalado Trota José, "The Participation of the Local Clergy in late 18th Century Philippine Art", p. 735) "After basic schooling at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Casimiro finished his bachelor s degree in Philosophy in 1774. In 1786 he was chosen by the gremios of Binondo, Santa Cruz, and Tondo to be their representative in the project [which never came to fruition] of the Santa Rosa de Lima convent. Being born in Santa Cruz, he was greatly influenced by exposure to art: by the eighteenth century, the district (under the spiritual charge of the Jesuits) was a major hub of artists whose work in precious metals, ivory, wood, textile, paper and paint provisioned churches all over the country. Padre Casimiro was a point person for the commissioning of certain silver objects for the church of San Luis in 1789.In his bequest of church furnishings for the Santa Rosa convent signed in Santa Cruz on 28 July 1788, Padre Casimiro mentioned that he was master of ceremonies of the cathedral and notario mayor of the Royal and Apostolic Tribunal of the Holy Crusade."(José, p. 740) About the printer: Pedro Argüelles de la Concepción ran the Franciscan press in the Convento de Nuestra Señora de Loreto printing press in Sam