Summary Catalogue no.: 19229
Contents
Collectarium (Carthusian) (?) (fols 7-30, 60-67, 31-51)
Psalter Each psalm is followed by a collect, and weekly canticles
Fols 60-67 should follow fols 31-51
(fol. 52)
Capitulary Rubric: Capitula per anni circulum
(fol. 68)
Collectar Rubric: Orationes per anni circulum
(fol. 95)
Antiphonal and responsorial Rubric: Antiphonarium per totum annum
Being a temporale combined with a few feasts of the sanctorale and the common of the saints
(fol. 124v)
Hymnal Rubric: Yhmni per totum annum
A fragment of the hymnal, in the midst of which the Office of Corpus Christi is bound up (fol. 126v)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 130 + 1 fols
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 98 mm.
Dimensions (written): 75-83 × 100-110 mm.
Dimensions (binding): 145–147 × 100–102 × c. 35 mm.
(book closed)
Binding
16th century ?, Italian (not the original binding, to judge by discoloration and wear on outside leaves at both ends of text-block): pasteboards(?); darkish brown leather (worn), blind-tooled with multiple lines, stamps and strapwork; remains of two clasps, one surviving with brown leather strap and plain catch, but traces of another (earlier?) single clasp at centre fore-edge
History
Origin: 15th century ;
Italy Record Sources
Description adapted (September 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)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 263
Last Substantive Revision
2025-09-11: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)
