[LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.
Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam missalis & breviarii romani, sub Urbano VIII. correcti, ad fidelium devotionem excitandam, adjunctis italico sermone declarationibus multarum rerum, quae fiunt, & dicuntur in ejusdem recitatione … et in fine psalmis poenitentialibus & orationibus ante & post communionem, ac perutili peccata confitendi methodo. Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.
12mo, pp. 480; printed in red and black throughout, woodcut Man of Sorrows to title, woodcut initial and ornament; a few light marks, but a good copy; bound in contemporary chestnut sheep, gilt centre- and cornerpieces, spine gilt in compartments, edges stained yellow, printed patterned endpapers; somewhat rubbed, corners worn, small loss to rear joint, headcap chipped; old ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, largely deleted.
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Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam missalis & breviarii romani, sub Urbano VIII. correcti, ad fidelium devotionem excitandam, adjunctis italico sermone declarationibus multarum rerum, quae fiunt, & dicuntur in ejusdem recitatione … et in fine psalmis poenitentialibus & orationibus ante & post communionem, ac perutili peccata confitendi methodo.
Very rare small-format edition of the Offices for Holy Week, with a woodcut Man of Sorrows.
This pocket-sized volume was likely intended to help its lay owner to understand services during Holy Week, with the Latin text of the Masses punctuated by explanations in Italian of both the prayers and the officiant’s actions; further appendices include a checklist of sins to aid the reader’s memory before Confession.
The endpapers, block-printed in three colours, were almost certainly produced by the Remondini in Bassano, near Venice, whose dominance in the market for patterned papers and popular printed products led them to be employing over a thousand workers by the end of the century.
No copies traced outside Italy; not on OCLC or Library Hub.
Endpapers not found in Kopylov.