MS. Canon. Liturg. 22
Summary Catalogue no.: 19235
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 3 + 246 + 2 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 110 × 78 mm.
Dimensions (written): 58 × 39 mm.
Layout
14 lines
Binding
15th century or 16th century?, Italian: wood boards, inside bevel, corners rounded; plain red silk, with thin green border at lower turn-ins (cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 143); spine lost; evidence for clasp(s) and other metal-work compromised by later repair, perhaps a single lost clasp or strap-and-pin fastening and maybe other fittings; edges gilt, gauffered. Reback (probably not the first) and edge-linings in red leather, later 19th century, Bodleian. 116–117 × c. 80 × c. 50 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:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 229
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.