MS. Canon. Liturg. 175
Summary Catalogue no.: 19303
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
16 lines
Decoration
Good miniaturers.
Good borders.
Good initials. By two hands, that on fols. 64v and 78v of an earlier generation. (Pächt and Alexander i. 334, pl. XXVI)
Binding
A composite binding, in which a modern structure with new boards preserves earlier elements:
15th century, late, or early 16th century, Flemish: brown cover-leather only (no spine), with a blind panel containing two rows of four ‘animals-in-foliage’ (eagle, stag, wyvern, lion, a common design) stamped twice on each cover; a parchment flyleaf at front (fol. iii) with holes and marks at fore-edge for two lost clasps; gilt edges, with indistinct traces of gauffering.
19th century, second half, before 1897, Bodleian: pasteboards covered with brown leather, underlying the old leather. 195 × c. 129 × c. 40 mm. (book closed). ‘Not certainly a Canonici volume’, according to Summary Catalogue.
For animals-in-foliage panels (no exact match), see J. Basil Oldham, Blind panels of English binders, Cambridge 1958, pp. 15–18; Staffan Fogelmark, Flemish and related panel-stamped bindings: evidence and principles, New York 1990, pp. 33–4.
History
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (11 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.