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MS. Canon. Liturg. 218

Summary Catalogue no.: 19330

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
(fol. 19)
Rubric: Officium sacratissime Virginis Marie secundum consuetudinem sancte Romane Curie
(fol. 119)
Offitium Mortuorum
(fol. 189)
Hours of the Cross
(fol. 193v)
Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 212)
(fol. 230)
Office of the passion (Regem Christum crucifixum)
Rubric: Officium sancte Crucis
(fol.267v )
Prayers for the infidels
Psalm Qui habitat, etc.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 270 (269) + i leaves
Dimensions (binding): 3.125 × 2.625 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 75 × 55 mm.
Cut.
Dimensions (written): 48 × 37 mm.

Condition

Imperfect at end

Layout

12 lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 720

Good borders

Historiated initials (rubbed). On the title-page (19) St Francis with a shield (azure a bend gules) or St Anthony of Padua with a book (?).

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italy, Lombardy (?)

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 720
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 304
Summary Catalogue (1897)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 360

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 304

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-07-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in printed catalogues.