MS. Canon. Liturg. 200
Summary Catalogue no.: 19312
Contents
Breviary (Carthusian)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine initials (mutilated). (Pächt and Alexander ii.590)
Binding
15th century, late, Italian (as MS.): wood boards, modest inside bevel; dark brown leather, each cover blind-tooled with lines, stamps, and near-strapwork decoration forming a central cross on a base; original spine lost; traces on each cover of four clasps with leather straps, and of four metal corner-pieces and a centrepiece all with scalloped edges, all lost; edges gilt, gauffered. Rebacked in dark brown leather, Bodleian, later 19th century. 257 × 172–177 × c. 73–75 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).
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Tammaro de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols., Florence 1960, II no. 1590 bis (under Venice)
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 239
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-08-20: Binding description added.