A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Liturg. 244

Summary Catalogue no.: 19349

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 211 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 95 × 68 mm.
Dimensions (written): 45 × 35 mm.

Layout

12 lines

Decoration

Fine border, historiated and other initials (partly damaged). After 1446 (St. Nicholas of Tolentino). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 467)

History

Origin: after 1446 ; Italian, Venice

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 10

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.