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MS. Canon. Liturg. 240

Summary Catalogue no.: 19345

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Rubric: ... Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie
(fol. 92)
Penitential Psalms with Litany
(fol. 124)
Rubric: Officium Mortuorum
(fol. 175)
Prayer
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
iii + 184 + iii fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 96 × 65 mm.
Dimensions (written): 42 × 30 mm.

Layout

11 lines

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 373

Good borders

Good historiated initials. Related to the style of Vienna, Nat. Bibl., Cod. 82

Arms on fol. 1: gules on a chevron argent between three roses of the second, three roses of the first, on a chief or an eagle issuant sable

Binding

18th century, ?Italian: pasteboards; polished brown leather, speckled lightly in black; covers plain, but gilt roll around all outside edges; spine with full gilt tooling, but no original title or label; no evidence of clasps, on this binding or earlier; edges plain; paste-downs and flyleaves of marbled paper, combed in red, yellow, blue, green, and white; green silk bookmark. 101–102 × 72 × c. 33 mm. (book closed)

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; Italy, Naples

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes 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). Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk (1957)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 364

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 258

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-06-27: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)