MS. Canon. Liturg. 206

Summary Catalogue no.: 19318

Rubric: Breuiarium secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie

Colophon: (fol. 243) Fr(ater) B(e)ne(dictus). Laus deo. S(cripsit) h(oc) bre(uiariu)m

The manuscript is neither Augustinian nor Franciscan though St Francis has an octave and St Augustine is called 'pater noster' (van Dijk [1957], p. 307)

(fol. 2)

Calendar

(fol. 7)

Psalter

With daily canticles, Pater and Te deum

(fol. 61)

Proprium de Tempore

(fol. 127)

At the end of the litany is a collect 'pro generali nostro K (?)'

(fol. 237v)

General rubrics with titles and interpolations

(fol. 240v)

Rubrical tables for the ferial antiphons before Christmas

The Sundays after Pentecost

Fol. 243: 'In anno illo quando pascha'

The scriptural lessons of September

Fol. 244: 'Tabula concilij lugdunij... tempore domini Bonifacii pape viij'

(fol. 246v)

Office and mass of the Transfiguration

(fol. 250v)

Rhythmical office of St Bernardin

Rubric: Bernardinus vir catholicus

(fol. 256)

Proprium ('festiuitates') Sanctorum

(fol. 385)

Common of the saints

Rubric: Commune Sanctorum

With dedication

(fol. 404)

Offices of Our Lady

(fol. 408v)

Offices of the Dead

(fol. 411v)

Order of grace before and after meals

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 422 fols

Dimensions (binding): 143 × c. 100 × c. 62 mm.

(book closed)

Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 95 mm.

Layout

2 cols, 34 lines, column space 93 × 27 mm.

Hand(s)

By at least two hands

Decoration

By at least two hands. Pächt and Alexander ii. 840, Pl. LXXVI

Fine historiated borders; full-page borders on fols 7v, 61r, 256r and 366r

Fine initials

Binding

15th century, Italian (as manuscript): wood boards, narrow inside bevel outlined in blind lines; shiny brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, stamps and strapwork decoration, spine lost; traces of two strap-and-pin fastenings, with straps of red textile running from fore-edge of front board to large metal pins with quatrefoil-shaped bases more than halfway across back cover, all lost; edges gilt, gauffered with overall diamond pattern. Rebacked in matching leather for Bodleian, later 19th century, during temporary classification amongst 'MSS. Miscell. Liturg.' (c. 1877–1887?). De Marinis (Florence 1960), III no. 3065, assigns the binding to Venice

History

Origin: 1463 ; Italy, North-east

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 413: 'Laus deo. 1463'

One of the suffrages is 'de vocabulo ecclesie N' (fol. 103)

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897). 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). Extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson (1984). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970). Further details are from van Dijk (1957)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 357

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (9 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 262

Tammaro de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols., Florence 1960, III no. 3065 (under Venice)

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 307

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.

Data

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