Beatae Mariae Virginis officium.
Contributors: Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, 1682 or 3-1754, illus.; Pitteri, Giovanni Marco, 1702-1786.; Baroni, Angela, fl. ca. 1740.; Catholic Church.
Publisher: Apud Jo. Baptistam Pasquali
Published: 1740
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Books of hours; Illumination of books and manuscripts
Other titles: Piazzetti Hours; Short hours of the Cross.; Short hours of the Holy Spirit.
Notes: In Latin; rubrics and some other short texts in Italian.
The edition is important for its decoration: includes 15 whole-page and 20 end-of-text engravings made by Marco Pitteri from designs by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
Text is that of the traditional book of hours (use of Rome), enriched by some optional material (cf. Contents).
According to statement on prelim. p. [9/10], the (entire?) text was engraved, by Angela Baroni (cf. also the ducal privilege on last leaf).
Signatures: pi⁴ A-Z⁸ Aa-Ff⁸.
Full-page engravings on prelim. p. [1] and [40]; in main part, on p. [34], [68], [78], [86], [94], [102], [124], [136], [212], [232], [266], [304], [320],
LC copy bound in contemporaneous Venetian red-morocco covers decorated in gilt.
Table of contents: title: [Calendar, etc.]; title: Institutio Christiana; title: Officium Beatae Mariae (p. 1-135); title: Officium defunctorum; title: Psalmi graduales; title: Septem psalmi poenitentiales (& Litaniae, Preces); title: Hymni per totum annum; title: Officium de SS. Sacramento; title: Officium S. Crucis; title: Officium S. Spiritus; title: Esercizio quotidiano; title: [Varia].