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MS. Canon. Liturg. 265

Summary Catalogue no.: 19367

Contents

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

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

One fine miniature on an added leaf, by the school of Attavante, fol. 15a. Good borders and historiated initials. The miniatures on fols. 13bv and 14b are by a third hand of c. 1500 and have been added. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 332, pl. XXXI)

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; Italian, Florence

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 369

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 243

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.