Office de la semaine sainte en Latin & en Francois à l'usage de Rome & de Paris
Subtitle: avec des refléxions et meditations, prieres et instructions pour la confession et communion : dedié a la reine pour l'usage de sa maison.
Publisher: Chez la veuve Mazieres et Garnier
Published: 1728
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Holy Week services -- Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Holy Week offices.
Notes: 2 columns, Latin 30 lines, French 44 lines, black only.

Engraved t.p., head pieces, and 3 full-page engravings: Christ's entry into Jerusalem, Last Supper, Resurrection, by J.B. Scotin.

Latin and French in parallel columns.

Contemporary red moroccan, attributed to Padeloup (Olivier, pl. 2507, fer no 1), in arms of Maria Leczinski, queen to Louis XV; elaborate doubled interlaced gilt designs on upper and lower covers; spine in 6 compartments, 5 with fleur-de-lys, 1 lettered; contemporary endpapers of painted and gilt flowers.

Ink inscription at front: "Jeanne Jacquinot femme de M. Quirot de Fontaine françoise, femme de Monsieur Quirot 1740, du mois de may. Controlleur a  St.-Seine sur Vingeanne"; similar inscription at back, dated 7 December 1738.

Purchased from catalogue of Librairie Pierre Chrétien, Paris, # 130, October, 1991.

Catalogue 481, no. 130, of Thomas Thorp, St. Albans, October 1991, lists a 2-vol. edition of the same work, same printer and date, different pagination, likewise bound in arms of Queen Marie Leczinska but in a modern lined morocco-backed foldover box, from the Library of Robert Hoe, with his book label in each volume.