MS. Canon. Liturg. 219
Summary Catalogue no.: 19331
Contents
In Latin and Italian
With Italian headings
Physical Description
Layout
12 lines
Hand(s)
In the additional prayer to St Christopher (fol. 207): parcha mihi famulo (a) the capital being by another hand (see fol. 203)
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander ii. 909
Illuminated capitals and borders at the beginning of each part
Good borders
Good historiated initials
On the title-page, fol. 13, is a coat of arms: party per pale gules and sable six leopards faces, three and three in pale, counterchanged (Cavazza of Vicenza?)
Binding
15th century, end, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with slight inside bevel; dark brown hard polished leather, cuir ciselé, incised with a full-standing ‘plague saint’ within a leafy border on each cover, all in relief on a stippled background – (front) St Sebastian, pierced with arrows, and (back) St Roch, holding a staff and displaying the sore on his thigh to a smaller figure; spine with similar leafy decoration; traces of a lost central clasp, once with small squarish fittings and a broad strap; gilt edges, not gauffered; endbands oversewn diagonally in red and green thread. Paste-downs (not flyleaves) of red ‘Dutch gilt paper’ embossed with hunting scenes, added in Italy, late 17th or 18th century (cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 136). A miniature book
Perhaps partly intended as an amulet against the plague and other perils. It ends with prayers for protection against both plague and shipwreck, also invoking St Christopher for a male owner
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'St Bartolomeus eps.' , red, 24 August in the Calendar indicates Bergamo
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-08-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)