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MS. Canon. Liturg. 243

Summary Catalogue no.: 19348

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
(fol. 1)
Calendar
Hours of the Virgin
(fol. 95)
Penitential Psalms with Litany
(fol. 120)
Mass of the Virgin
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 127 + xiv fols
Dimensions (binding): 101 × 75–76 × c. 30 mm.
(book closed)
Dimensions (leaf): 93 × 73 mm.

Condition

Mutilated: the two chief pieces have lost their first leaves (after fols 15 and 94)

Layout

1 col., 13 lines, 54 × 45 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Petrus de Zangrandis, fol. 119v: 'Ego Petrus de Gangrandis scripsi hunc librum die Iunii xxiiijº M cccc lxviij'. The same hand continues to fol. 127v; the remaining written leaves are in a different hand

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 844

Initials

Binding

18th century?, Italy: 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

History

Origin: 1468 ; Italy, Parma

Provenance and Acquisition

The entry for 4 December in the calendar has 'Bernardi episcopi Parmensis et confessoris' in red

Fol. 129v: 'Iste liber est mei angelini de bernazonibus', erased ex libris (s. xv ex)

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 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). Extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson (1984)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 364

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

2025-07-10: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)