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MS. Canon. Liturg. 108

Summary Catalogue no.: 19260

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii + 231 (233) + 3 + i fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 124 × 84 mm.

Dimensions (written): 68 × 40 mm.

Layout

16 lines

Hand(s)

Script Italian. (Pächt and Alexander i. 326, pl. XXVI)

Decoration

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials. By the School of Willem Vrelant. (Pächt and Alexander i. 326, pl. XXVI)

Binding

16th century?, origin unclear (MS. first made for a female owner): wood boards; gilt edges, gauffered with an overall diagonal/diamond pattern; no discernible evidence of clasps. Red velvet covering, thick and plain, worn at edges but probably a later replacement, 18th century ?, Italian, along with the front endleaves of thin white laid paper; reback of red leather with suede-like texture, 20th century, Bodleian. 135–137 × 84–85 × c. 50 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: c. 1470 ; Italian (script); Flemish (decoration)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966). 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).

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 342

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 299

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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