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MS. Canon. Liturg. 10

Summary Catalogue no.: 19225

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Franciscan (?) calendar (fol. 1); office of the Virgin (fol. 13); office of the dead (fol. 60); Penitential Psalms (fol. 88) with litany (fol. 96v); two offices of the cross (fol. 104v: Regem virginis filium venite adoremus; and fol. 119: Patris sapientia). All parts incomplete, except for the kalendar.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 112 + 1 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 136 × 83 mm.

Condition

Leaves missing at the beginning, at the end and after fol. 59, 87, 112

Layout

19 long lines. Written space 82 × 41 mm.

Decoration

Rubbed. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 967)

Good borders.

Historiated initials.

Other initials.

Binding

16th century, later, or 17th century, Italian: pasteboards; red leather, tooled with blind and gilt lines, gilt roll, and gilt oval centrepieces left unfilled; spine tooled with gilt lines and a flower tool; no clasps or ties; gilt gauffered edges; spine-liners from fragments of medieval manuscript(s). 142 × 85–88 × c. 22–24 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Marches

Provenance and Acquisition

On the title-page, fol. 13, over an earlier coat, arms: or a baston sable (Barbarico of Sicily (?) or Barboniani of Venice (?))

Marcantonio Folli of Sollesta (a suburb of Ascoli), 1761: fols. 1 ('Marcus Antonius Folli della terra di Pollesalle'), 109 ('Ad usum di Marc’ antonio Folli m(agistr)o … da Sollesta')

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Adapted from van Dijk (1957) (see bibliography); decoration, localization, date and provenance follow Pächt and Alexander (1970). Binding: 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). Previously described in the Summary Catalogue (1897).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 333

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 249

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-01: Revised to incorporate information from van Dijk