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MS. Canon. Liturg. 220

Summary Catalogue no.: 19332

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
(fol. 5)
Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 21)
(fol. 35)
Rubric: Offitium in agenda Mortuorum
(fol. 78)
Offitium sancte Crucis
(fol. 84)
Offitium Sancti Spiritus
(fol. 92v)
Prayer O domine J.C. adoro te, introduced by a long rubric mentioning the popes who gave indulgences
(fol. 98)
Mass of the Virgin and St Raphael (fol. 107v) with devotions (fol. 116v)
(fol. 120v)
Mass pro pestilentia (Recordare domine)
(fol. 127)
Illumina oculos, a commemoration of St Julian the hospitaller (131v) and other prayers.

From rubrics on fol. 36v, etc. it appears that the office of the Virgin preceded the present manuscript.

On fols. 130v and 139 are prayers mentioning famulus tuus X.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 4 + 152 (149) + 5 + i fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 70 × 55 mm.
Dimensions (written): 42 × 32 mm.

Layout

12 lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 910

Good borders

Historiated initials

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; Italian, North-east

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. 910
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 232
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. 232

Last Substantive Revision

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