MS. Canon. Liturg. 148
Summary Catalogue no.: 19283
Contents
Prayers, meditations, etc.
Language(s): Middle Dutch
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine miniatures.
Fine initials. Close to the style of the Master of Charles V. (Pächt and Alexander i. 386, pl. XXX)
Binding
16th century?, Flemish?: wood boards; plain red velvet, very worn (but intact) on spine, well preserved on covers; traces at fore-edge of two lost pairs of pink silk(?) ties; gilt edges, faint traces of gauffering. 174–175 × 115 × c. 38 mm. (book closed).
History
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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (4 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. 374b
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-24: Binding description added.