MS. Canon. Liturg. 247

Summary Catalogue no.: 19352

Book of Hours (Dominican)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good borders.

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 539)

Binding

A composite binding, where the boards seem earlier than the leather:

15th century, Italian (as MS.?, for the Dominican nuns of Corpus Domini, Venice): wood boards, with traces of two fore-edge clasps present in nails and grooves under the leather; edges gilt, possible traces of gauffering.

16th century?, Italian: dark brown leather, simply blind-tooled with double lines around the edges and also forming a large blank diamond-shaped panel on each cover; no allowance for the boards’ clasp fittings.

18th century, Italian: paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese added for Jacopo Soranzo, whose label is at top of spine. 103 × 73 × c. 47 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Venice

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).

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 365

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 366

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 22

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-08-20: Binding description added.

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