MS. Canon. Liturg. 240
Summary Catalogue no.: 19345
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 184 + iii fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 96 × 65 mm.
Dimensions (written): 42 × 30 mm.
Layout
11 lines
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
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. 258
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.