A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Liturg. 226

Summary Catalogue no.: 19338

Contents

1. (fol. iv)
Religious treatise
Rubric: ... Natiuitas beatissime Virginis Marie...
Incipit: Natiuitas gloriosa... patrem Ioachim
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 2)
Ps.-Bonaventure, Meditationes uitae Christi
Rubric: ... Meditationes totius decursus uite... Iesu Christi, secundum beatum Bonauenturam...
Incipit: Inter alia virtutum

Arranged to occupy a week in reading

Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 132v)
Treatises on the Nativity and Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Rubric: De assumptione (et miraculis) beate semper Virginis Marie
Incipit: Assumptio... qualiter sancta sit
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 149)

A 'rubrica totius libelli,' a list of the chapters

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vii + 158 leaves A miniature book,
Dimensions (binding): 90–91 × c. 67 × c. 27 mm.
(book closed)

Condition

Fols 84-85 are torn

Binding

A composite binding, in which a modern structure with new boards preserves the earlier leather:

15th century, second half, Italian (contemproary with the manuscript): covering of polished brown leather, blind-tooled with double or triple lines and with central panels filled by simple strapwork; spine lost; traces of one central clasp; edges plain.

19th century, second half, Bodleian (during temporary classification amongst ’MSS. Miscell. Liturg.’, c. 1877–1887?): heavily repaired, with new pasteboards and spine; the old cover-leather re-laid onto new grainy brown leather which covers all edges

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; Italy

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897). 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)

Last Substantive Revision

2025-07-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)