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MS. Canon. Liturg. 118

Summary Catalogue no.: 19263

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 + 116 + 2 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 148 × 102 mm.
Dimensions (written): 80 × 52 mm.

Layout

16 lines

Decoration

Good miniatures, partly damaged.

Good borders.

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 305, pl. XXIV)

Binding

15th century, origin unclear: wood boards, flush with textblock; red velvet, very worn on outside and spine almost lost, but with well-preserved turn-ins including a border of plain canvas with a green stripe; no surviving decoration; traces of two strap-and-pin fastenings with straps of red textile (lost) running from front fore-edge to lost pins near centre of back cover. The edges of both textblock and boards are gilt (very worn), evidently gilded after binding. 145–148 × 100–101 × c. 30–36 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; Flemish, Ghent (?)

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. 343

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (20 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. 281

Abbreviations

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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.