MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 48
Summary Catalogue no.: 18941
Contents
Bible
(fol. 463)
Incipit: Cives celestis patrie regi regum concinnate, etc. Jaspis coloris viridis praefert nitorem fidei.
(fol. 464)
Nominum Hebraicorum interpretatio (fol. 490)
Canones evangeliorum (fols. 491–2)
Epistle and Gospel list, Use of Rome Added by a contemporary hand. Temporale. Incipits and explicits.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 492 + ii fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 155 mm.
Layout
2 columns.
List in 2 columns almost over the whole width of the page.
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander ii. 89 ('mutilated and partly unfinished'):
Good historiated initials.
Good other initials.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Franciscans at Bologna, 18th cent.: 'De conventu Boniensi Ordinis Minimorum', fol. 1.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.
Record Sources
S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957) (fols. 28–34); Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography). 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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 89
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.