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MS. Canon. Liturg. 148

Summary Catalogue no.: 19283

Contents

Prayers, meditations, etc.
(fol. 14)
Penitential Psalms
Rubric: die seuen Psalmen der Penitentien
(fol. 20)
Litany
(fol. 43)
Prayers to Saints
(fol. 65)
The 15 Oes of St. Bridget
(fol. 73)
Prayers
Rubric: die xv bloet stortingen ons liefs heeren Ihesu Christi
(fols 88, 114v, 119)

Some later additions, partly written in 1592 in French

Language(s): Middle Dutch, Latin and French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
2 + 121 + 2 fols
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 102 × 78 mm.
Dimensions (binding): 174–175 × 115 × c. 38 mm.
(book closed)

Condition

Fols 88-115 are of a later date

Layout

19 lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 386, Pl. XXX

Fine miniatures, e.g. fol. 52v (St Roche), fol. 54v and fol. 83r

Fine initials, e.g. fol. 13r and fol. 14r. Close to the style of the Master of Charles V

Binding

16th century?, Flanders?: 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

History

Origin: c. 1500 ; Flanders

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes 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). Extent, leaf dimensions, layout and additional desciption of the contents from van Dijk (1957)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 348

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

2025-08-28: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)