MS. Canon. Liturg. 243
Summary Catalogue no.: 19348
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Initials. Written by Petrus de Zangrandis, fol. 119v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 844)
Binding
18th century?, Italian: pasteboards?; grainy, dark brown leather, blind-tooled with a single line round edges of each cover and a floral tool at each corner (possibly also in spine-panels, but if so very faint); no clasps; edges stained red, for this binding. 101 × 75–76 × c. 30 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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 266
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 233
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-08-20: Binding description added.