Joh. Baptistæ Casalii Romani De Profanis Et Sacris Veteribus Ritibus: Opus Tripartitum, Cujus Prima Pars Agit de Profanis Ægyptiorum Ritibus, ... Secunda Pars Agit de Profanis Romanorum Ritibus, ... Tertia Pars Agit de Sacris Christianorum Ritibus, ...
A 1681 Latin antiquarian treatise by Giovanni Battista Casali, edited by Thomas Heinrich Hauenstein, cataloguing ancient Egyptian, Roman and Christian rituals for scholars of religion and antiquity. The engraved plates show processions, sacrificial scenes, classical reliefs, coins and ecclesiastical objects, offering a designer ready models of ancient ceremonial composition in dense banded friezes and medallion layouts.
