MS. Canon. Liturg. 233
Summary Catalogue no.: 19342
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 + 132 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 87 × 65 mm.
Dimensions (written): 47 × 31 mm.
Layout
24 lines
Binding
17th century?, French or Flemish?: thin pasteboards; polished red leather, elaborate all-over gilt tooling on covers and outside edges but central oval on each cover left unfilled (for coat of arms?); spine flat, with similar gilt tooling but no title; traces of two clasps, roughly removed; edges gilt, not gauffered, done after some trimming (slightly cropping the illuminated borders). Fragments of Jacopo Soranzo’s decorative label, 18th century, at top of spine. A miniature book, 91 × c. 67–68 × c. 28 mm. (book closed).
History
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966). 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. 288
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.