MS. Canon. Liturg. 267

Summary Catalogue no.: 19369

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 663, pl. LXIV)

Binding

18th century?, Italian: wood? boards; polished light-brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, stamps and a roll to form a panel with a simple decorative centrepiece on each cover; blind lines and floral stamps on spine, but no title or original label; extreme edges of covers also blind-tooled; clasps never present on this binding, no signs of previous fittings; edges gilt, gauffered, but uneven after resewing so perhaps inherited from a previous binding. 129 × 92–94 × c. 57–58 mm. (book closed). Cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 242 (similar leather and style, though not same tools).

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, Bologna (?)

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. 369

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 370

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 240

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-08-20: Binding description added.

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