MS. Canon. Liturg. 158

Summary Catalogue no.: 19289

Psalter (portable secular psalter with antiphons)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine border.

Fine historiated initial.

Good borders.

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 870, pl. LXXVII)

Binding

18th century, middle (by 1751), Italian: pasteboards; polished, hard, near-black leather, heavily grained (like shagreen?), plain except for blind triple lines around edges of covers; two fine fore-edge clasps, comprising straps of the same leather with scallop-shaped tips and loops of dark metal which fit onto pins at edges of lower cover; paste-downs of marbled paper; flyleaves of thick white laid paper, with an ex dono inscription dated 1762 (fol. iiir) and the date ‘1751’ at end (fol. 161v, cf. 160v). 160–161 × 116–117 × c. 35–36 mm. (book closed). Identical clasps are at MS. Canon. Liturg. 291, but with different binding style.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, North-east

Record Sources

Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 545–8. 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.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 349

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 118

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-07-24: Binding description added.

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