MS. Canon. Liturg. 13

Summary Catalogue no.: 19228

Office of the Dead

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Penwork border, initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 771)

Binding

16th century?, Italian: wood boards with largish squares; reddish-brown leather, blind-tooled with triple lines around edges of covers and a single floral stamp in each corner; central strap-and-pin fastening, with leather strap (probably a replacement) tipped with an earlier(?) brass clasp embossed ‘au[e]’; edges with splodges of faded red and blue, date uncertain. 143 × 105 × c. 20 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; Italian, North

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date 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).

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. 330

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-07-24: Binding description added.

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