MS. Canon. Liturg. 218
Summary Catalogue no.: 19330
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
(fol. 2)
Calendar (Franciscan) (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
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)
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
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-07-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in printed catalogues.