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

OR BROWSE BY

MANUSCRIPTS
WORKS
PEOPLE
PLACES

MS. Canon. Liturg. 264

Summary Catalogue no.: 19366

Contents

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

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine historiated borders.

Fine initials.

By two hands. A cutting pasted in, fol. 14, north Italian, 13th century, second half. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 722, pl. LXX)

Binding

16th century? (and earlier?), Italian: wood boards, narrow inside bevel; rich brocade, woven with a large acanthus-leaf pattern in yellow-gold on a blue background, covering the boards and originally the spine (there mostly lost); two clasps with straps of the same brocade over parchment linings, and scallop-shell shaped brass tips; edges gilt and gauffered. 143–148 × 99–100 × c. 45–46 mm. (book closed). The boards and sewing might be earlier than the 16th(?)-century fabric.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, Lombardy

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. 368
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 369

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 250

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2020-08-20: Binding description added.