MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 27

Summary Catalogue no.: 18919

Companion volume to MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 28.

Use of Rome. Temporale (fol. 1); sanctorale (fol. 72); common of the saints and the dedication (fol. 84^v); epistles for the dead and votive masses (fol. 96).

Colophon: (fol. 98v) Ego Johannes Incontrus uolaterranus Capellanus sancti petri maioris de florentia transcripsi hoc opus propris[sic] manibus. die uero. .12. Marzi. .1477.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 100 + i fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 230 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 26 lines, column space 205 × 60 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Johannes Incontrus of Volterra, chaplain of S. Pietro Maggiore, Florence, fol. 98v.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 309 ('related to the style of Attavante'):

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

Illuminated initials (some historiated), coloured initials, rubrics.

Binding

15th century (as MS.) ?, or (acc. Pächt and Alexander) 16th century, Italian: wood boards, reddish-brown leather with blind stamps in roll-like pattern; gilt edges, faintly gauffered; traces of two strap-and-pin clasps and (metal?) centrepieces with ?papal crossed keys, all lost; spine with original blind stamps, later enhanced (18th century, Italian) with gilt lines and a gilt green-leather label. 338 × 234 × c. 43–45 mm. (book closed). Uniformly bound and enhanced with MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 28.

History

Origin: 1477 ; Italian, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Adapted (2018, rev. April 2020) from the following sources:

B. C. Barker-Benfield, Bookbindings of Canonici manuscripts : a survey of early and non-standard bindings, mostly Italian, in the Canonici collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Oxford, privately printed, 2020) [binding]

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 143 [origin, date, physical description, colophon]

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 309 [decoration[

S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 85 [contents]

Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 258

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 324