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MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 91

Summary Catalogue no.: 18984

Contents

1.
Psalter (portable)
Language(s): Latin
2.
Devotional texts
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Initials copying Romanesque style. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 939, pl. LXXIX)

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 510–5. 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) and supplementary sources.
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 279–80
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 326

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 88

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.