This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that the
Augustinian friar Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568) assembled in the 1560s for the Cardinal
Alessandro Farnese as well as for Hans Jakob Fugger in Augsburg. Onofrio Panvinio is
primarily known for his antiquarian studies about ancient Rome and for his edition
of Bartolomeo Platina’s Lives of the Popes. His preoccupation with the Roman rite,
however, remains until today largely unnoticed by modern scholarship. This edition
of Panvinio’s Vetusti aliquot rituales libri highlights his interests in the development
of Roman liturgy during the last sessions of the Council of Trent (1545–1563) by presenting
the various documentary as well as cultural layers of Panvinio’s collection of
Roman ritual manuscripts.