MS. Canon. Liturg. 169

Summary Catalogue no.: 19299

(fol. 1)

(fol. 7r)

Rubric: Incipit breuiariu⟨m⟩ s⟨ecund⟩um ⟨con⟩suetudine⟨m⟩ romane curie. Sabb⟨at⟩o primo de adve⟨n⟩tu. Ad uesperas Cap⟨itu⟩l⟨um⟩

Incipit: Fratres scientes q⟨ui⟩ a hora est ia⟨m⟩ nos de sompno surge⟨re⟩

Proprium de Tempore

(fol. 237)

Psalter, etc.

(fol. 311)

Rubric: Proprium de Sanctis

(fol. 487)

Rubric: Commune Sanctorum

With smaller offices and benedictions

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

2 + 525 (526) + 2 leaves .

Dimensions (leaf): 164 × 115 mm.

Dimensions (written): 102 × 65 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 32 lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 579, Pl. LV

Fine historiated borders

Fine initials

Historiated initial F (of 'Fratres') with St Paul holding a sword. Smaller decorated initials with penwork flourishing. Panel border decorated with penwork and flowers. In corners, small miniatures with birds, a stag and a monkey eating a fruit. In the right border, medallion with God holding an orb. In the lower border, a coat of arms held by putti (Based on the description created for the Bodleian slide and filmstrip collection)

Binding

15th century, end, Italy (as manuscript): wood boards, inside bevel; brown leather, blind-tooled with quadruple lines and strapwork, cross-hatching on spine; traces of two strap-and-pin clasps, with lost straps of red textile nailed at front fore-edge with prominent star-shaped nails and running to lost pins near centre of back cover; edges gilt, gauffered. Rebacked, preserving original spine, 1964, Bodleian 170–172 × 113–116 × c. 90–95 mm. (book closed)

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; Italy, Venice

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes 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. 352

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image 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. 312

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-07: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges