MS. Canon. Liturg. 126
Summary Catalogue no.: 19267
Contents
Psalter (portable secular psalter with antiphons)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine historiated borders, marginal grotesques.
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 292, pl. XXI)
Binding
17th century or 18th century, Italian?: pasteboards; parchment covering, sides plain; the flat spine has three horizontal gilt lines at top and bottom, and a gilt title with ornamental border tooled directly onto it, with no label; no clear signs of clasps or ties; edges plain, partly discoloured. 113–115 × 77–80 × c. 43–46 mm. (book closed). The manuscript was in Italy by the 15th century, but has a later ex libris in Portuguese on the front paste-down.
History
Record Sources
Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 354–60. 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.
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 96
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-24: Binding description added.