MS. Canon. Liturg. 169
Summary Catalogue no.: 19299
Contents
Breviary, Use of Rome (Franciscan)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine historiated borders.
Fine initials. (P&A ii. 579, pl. LV)
Binding
15th century, end, Italian (as MS.): 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
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated 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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-24: Binding description added.