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MS. Canon. Liturg. 259

Summary Catalogue no.: 19361

Contents

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

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine border, historiated and other initials (very rubbed). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 436)

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; Italian, Venice (?)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 367

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 266

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.