Book Title: Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias ceremonias, quibus nunc utitur sacrosancta Romana ecclesia, accommodatum. Nonnullis insuper, que in antea impressis non habentur accuratissime auctum .Ac in tres partes distinctum. : quarum prima personarum, secunda rerum consecrationes, et benedictiones continet : tertia vero quedam ecclesiastica officia, et alia multa comprehendit, que in sequenti tabula, versa pagina monstrantur. Nuper summa diligentia reuisum, emendatum, & impressum

Author: Catholic Church

Image Title: The Office of Holy Thursday, with the Blessing of the Oil of Catechumens and the Oil for the Infirm and the Holy Chrism

Description: This is the last of four engravings illustrating the blessing of several holy oils on Holy Thursday. With two vessels of oil resting on the altar, the bishop begins to sing the preface of the Mass.

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